Eduardo Paolozzi

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi CBE RA (1924–2005) was one of the most influential figures in post-war British art and is widely regarded as a pioneer of British Pop Art. Fascinated by engineering, science, architecture and mass communication, Paolozzi created a highly individual visual language in which mechanical components, printed imagery and industrial forms were combined into complex compositions that reflected the technological age. Alongside his celebrated sculpture, printmaking became a vital part of his practice, allowing him to experiment with colour, structure and imagery through increasingly sophisticated graphic techniques.

Eduardo Paolozzi, ‘Vulcan’ Plaster Head (Part of ‘Two Plaster Heads’, £2950)

Within Sharpe Fine Art’s exhibition narrative, Moving to Modernism – Arriving at Abstraction, Paolozzi represents the point at which abstraction embraces the modern industrial world. Rather than drawing inspiration from landscape or organic form, his work explores the visual language of machinery, engineering and the rapidly changing culture of the twentieth century, demonstrating how abstraction could evolve through technology as much as through nature.