Eduardo Paolozzi

Poster, from As Is When

About this artwork

This is the poster for Paolozzi’s first major print series, As Is When. Made using the same screenprint method, on a lighter paper, it is as much a work of art as the prints themselves. The suite of twelve screenprints, made between May 1964 and May 1965, takes the writings and life of German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) as the jumping off point for an explosion in colour and pattern.

Published January 2024

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artist:

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005) Scottish
title:

Poster, from As Is When
date created:

1965
materials:

Screenprint on paper
measurements:

Paper size: 76.50 x 66.00 cm
object type:

Work on paper
credit line:

Purchased 2001
accession number:

GMA 4366 N
gallery:

Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art (Modern One) (In Storage)
artwork photographed by:

Antonia Reeve

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Eduardo Paolozzi

Of Italian descent, Paolozzi was born in Leith near Edinburgh. He studied in Edinburgh and London and spent two years in Paris from 1947, where he produced enigmatic, bronze sculptures reminiscent of those by Giacometti. During the same period he made a series of dada and surrealist-inspired...