Small Figure

Name: SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI (1924-2005)
Brand: Small Figure
Price: 20000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 25,000

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GBP 15,000 - GBP 25,000

Closed: 14 Jul 2020

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SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI (1924-2005)

Small Figure

Price Realised GBP 25,000

Closed: 14 Jul 2020

Price Realised GBP 25,000

Closed: 14 Jul 2020

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SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI (1924-2005)
Small Figure
bronze with a green patina, unique
10³⁄₄ x 4¹⁄₂ x 4³⁄₄ in. (27.3 x 11.4 x 12 cm.)
Conceived circa 1956

Acquired directly from the artist by the previous owner's parents in the late 1950s, and by descent.
Their sale, Christie's South Kensington, 17 March 2016, lot 70.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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Lot Essay

'This is what imposes, in addition to a formal metamorphosis, a material metamorphosis on all my materials. In the finished casting the original are no longer present at all, as they are in the Dada and Surrealist compositions of this kind. They survive in my sculptures as ghosts of forms that still haunt the bronze, details of its surface or its actual structure' (E. Paolozzi, quoted in E. Roditi, , London, 1960, p. 162).

In 1954 Paolozzi set up a bronze furnace in Dorothy Morland's garden in Hampstead and from 1954-57 cast his own bronzes with the help of Morland's son, Francis. Using the lost-wax method Paolozzi cast a number of small figure pieces reminiscent of his French contemporary, Jean Dubuffet who he had met while living in Paris in the late 1940s. The Pier Art Centre have a similar piece to the present work which was gifted by Paolozzi to Margaret Gardiner.

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Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot. You must pay us an extra amount equal to the resale royalty and we will pay the royalty to the appropriate authority. Please see the Conditions of Sale for further information.