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
diagrammatic
emotions, concepts and ideas
figure
figure
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
head / face
irregular forms
non-representational
people
paper print etching
Head
image: 448 × 300 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-p07681" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07681</span></a> <b>Head</b> 1980 [<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>- <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>]</p>
<p>
<br/>Etching printed from another impression 17 7/8 × 11 1/4 (448 × 300) on Arches paper 22 1/2 × 15 (572 × 380), printed by the artist with Michael Rand at the Royal College of Art, not editioned</p>
<p>Inscribed ‘Eduardo Paolozzi 1980’ b.r. and ‘A/P’</p>
<p>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1982</p>
<p>
<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 <span>P07681</span>, 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
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-13T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction adults body diagrammatic emotions, concepts and ideas figure figure formal qualities from recognisable sources head / face irregular forms non-representational people