Etching on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-eduardo-paolozzi-1738" aria-label="More by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Eduardo Paolozzi</a>
Head
Purchased 1982
abstraction
adults
body
figure
figure
from recognisable sources
head / face
irregular forms
non-representational
people
paper print etching
Head
image: 284 × 214 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-head-p07679" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07679</span></a> <b>Head</b> 1977 [<span>P07679</span>- <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-head-p07682" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07682</span></a>]
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<br/>Etching 11 3/4 × 8 5/8 (284 × 214) on paper 20 1/2 × 14 (525 × 355), printed by the artist with Cliff White at White Ink Studio, not editioned
<br/>Inscribed ‘Eduardo Paolozzi 1977’ b.r. and ‘A P’; impressed with the printer's stamp
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>These four <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> are from a series of experimental <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a> made between 1977 and 1980; not more than between five and ten copies of each have been printed. The images were drawn with <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drypoint" title="Glossary definition for 'Drypoint'"><span>drypoint</span></a> on aluminium plates (which means they would not stand many printings without losing the burr and the quality of the drypoint line). In some, such as <span>P07682</span> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-head-p07681" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07681</span></a>, Paolozzi was experimenting with pantographic distortion. He used a pantograph (a device usually used to scale <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> up) assembled wrongly to distort his original drawing by curving and elongating it. <span>P07681</span> is printed by placing a fresh sheet over a newly-printed etching and running through the press again, i.e. by printing offset from another print.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986</p>

Catalogue entry
2004-10-13T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction adults body figure figure from recognisable sources head / face irregular forms non-representational people