About this artwork
Work in Progress is a shared collage experiment. Kitaj and Paolozzi worked together as ‘editors’, bringing together a strange selection of found objects and images in a new context. The various elements sit within in a bespoke frame in the style of a religious altarpiece. It contains tin can covers, photographs, parts of toys and a hand-written transcription of the story The Road to Brody by the Ukrainian author Isaac Babel (1894–1940). The title of the work suggests a perpetually unfinished state: an ongoing conversation between the artists.
Updated April 2024
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title:Work in Progress
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date created:1962
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materials:Paper and tin collage in painted wooden frame
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measurements:85.30 x 100.00 cm (framed: 85.40 x 100.20 x 3.60 cm)
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credit line:Bequeathed by Gabrielle Keiller 1995
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accession number:GMA 4069
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Eduardo Paolozzi
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...