PAOLOZZI, Sir Eduardo

1924 - 2005

Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi was born in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland on 7 March 1924, the eldest child of Carmella (1902-11 January 1955) and Rudolfo Paolozzi, Italian immigrants, who, like many other fascists, were interned at the outbreak of the Second World War, Eduardo's father and maternal grandfather were drowned in April 1942, when the 'Arondara Star' in which they were being sent to Canada, was torpedoed. Paolozzi studied at the Edinburgh College of Art 1941-1943, being conscripted into the army but was discharged as unfit in 1944. He then attended the Ruskin School of Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford being transferred to the Slade School of Fine Art, which had moved to Oxford during the war, where it shared the facilities of the Ruskin Drawing School, 1944-1947. Eduardo then moved to Paris and despite being introduced to artists such as Giacometti (1901-1966), Brancusi (1876-1957) and Braque (1882-1963), he was unsuccessful and came back to London, teaching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts 1949-1955. Whilst at the School, he met other renowned artists such as Lucian Freud, William Turnbull (1922-2012) and Francis Bacon (1909-1992), from whom he took inspiration. Paolozzi was interested in everything and would use a variety of objects and materials in his work, particularly his collages. He met his future wife Freda Madge Elliot[t] in 1943, whom he married at Kensington, London on 7 July 1951 and in 1955 they moved to Landemere, Thorpe-le-Soken in Essex from where he commuted to his studio in Chelsea. Eduardo and Freda had three daughters before their divorce in 1988. He taught sculpture and ceramics at several institutions, including the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg 1960–1962, University of California, Berkeley in 1968, the Royal College of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Ipswich School of Art. Paolozzi was appointed CBE in 1968 and in 1979 was elected to the Royal Academy. In 1986 he was promoted to the office of Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland and Paolozzi was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1989 as Knight Bachelor. Widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art and was also an eminent sculptor, being responsible for the bronze figure of Sir Isaac Newton on the forecourt of the British Library and several others. Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi died in London on 22 April 2005.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 107 Devonshire Street, Southwest London
1977 145 Study for Osaka. A Sculpture - bronze
         1295 Neorema Leoend, 1974 - cast aluminium
1978 118 Niigata-Turkoma - bronze
         119 Portrait of Matta - bronze
         120 Small Head - bronze
         136 Tim's Boot - bronze
1979 231 Study for Buckner Project, Linz, Austria - pencil
         1241 Large Marquette for Cleich Castle Ceiling - wood
         1242 Naked Head - bronze
         1243 Study for 5, 1975 - bronze
         1244 Matamalla, 1979 - bronze
         1245 Ramonet 1975-1978 Model for 3 Bronze Reliefs - plaster on wood
1980 303 Automobile Head, 1978 - dry point
         308 Head for Koln - print
         802 Big Head - bronze
         926 Maquette for 'Camera'...Munich - cast iron
         951 Large Camera - bronze
         1188 Sculptor's Table 1974-1980 - bronze
1983 1019 A New Spirit in Painting - lithograph
1984 1488 Portrait of an Actor - bronze
         1489 Yukio Mishima - bronze
         1490 Walk Man - bronze
         1491 Portrait of a Writer - bronze
         1492 Pandura - bronze
1985 1382 Yukio Mishima, second version - bronze
         1383 The Actor L.B. second version - bronze
         1384 Study of Francis Bacon - bronze
         1385 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog - bronze
1986 1250 Jack Wayne - painted plaster
         1251 The Critic - bronze
         1252 Sculpture for a Blind Poet - painted wood
         1286 Study for a Camera - resin and wood
         1288 Model for a cast iron Sculpture - plaster
1987 471 Self-portrait and strange machine - bronze
         493 Music into Geometry - wood and plastic
         518 Portrait of the Artist as a Vulture - bronze
         519 Count Basire - bronze
1988 1116 Study of Newton - bronze
         1118 Study of Richard Rogers, R.A. - bronze
         1119 Small study of Newton - bronze
         1120 Newton Calculating - bronze
1989 1172 Mr Cruikshank - tin
         1173 Study for a Self Portrait - bronze
         1174 Newton Calculating - bronze
         1175 Study after Van Gogh - bronze
         1176 Study after Van Gogh II - bronze
1990 136 Landscape II - etching
         561 Masters of the Universe - bronze and wood
1991 1102 Daedalus on Wheels
1992 95 Collage for Hollywood Wax Museum - collage
         950 Athena - bronze
         1215 Testa - tin
         1216 Computer Head - bronze
         1217 Nullius in Verba - bronze
1993 15 Modriani II - bronze
         16 Modriani III - bronze
         42 Road to the Isles - bronze
         1375 Drummond House - model
         1767 Modriani - bronze
1994 32 Mondriani - bronze
         42 Pascal - bronze
         60 Hebe - bronze
         286 Appolo-Nayre
         989 Mondriani. A London Sketch - bronze
         1297 Newton after Blake - bronze

---

Works by This Artist