Screenprint on paper
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Calcium Light Night
<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>
Nettleton
Purchased 1982
abstraction
artist’s notes
colour
diagrammatic
emotions, concepts and ideas
film, music and ballet
formal qualities
geometric
inscriptions
lifestyle and culture
literature and fiction
music: Ives, Charles
musical analogy
non-representational
pattern
society
symbols and personifications
paper print screenprint
Nettleton
image: 800 × 547 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-nettleton-p07621" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07621</span></a> [from] <b>Nettleton from Calcium Light Night</b> 1977 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-allegro-moderato-firemans-parade-p01992" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01992</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-from-early-italian-poets-p01999" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P01999</span></a>; <span>P07621</span>; complete]
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<br/>Screenprint with embossing 31 3/8 × 21 3/4 (800 × 547) on paper 39 × 27 5/8 (990 × 690), printed by Chris Betambeau at Advanced Graphics and published by the artist in an edition of 200
<br/>Inscribed ‘Eduardo Paolozzi 1977’ b.r. and ‘A/P 2/25’; impressed with the printer's stamp
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Rosemary Miles, The Complete Prints of Eduardo Paolozzi, exhibition catalogue, Victoria and Albert Museum, May–August 1977, no.185
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<br/>When the <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/portfolio" title="Glossary definition for 'Portfolio'"><span>portfolio</span></a> ‘Calcium Light Night’ was given to the collection in 1980 it was found to contain only eight <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> instead of nine. Consequently the missing print, ‘Nettleton’, was sought from the artist (the portfolio is also an artist's <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/proof" title="Glossary definition for 'Proof'"><span>proof</span></a> set, no.4/25, see <span>P01992</span>-<span>P01999</span>). The portfolio is dedicated to the American composer Charles Ives (it is often known as the ‘Ives Suite’) and contains texts taken from writings by or about Ives. Paolozzi started work on the prints while he was living in Berlin, working in a studio on Kottbüsserdam provided by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange) programme; Propyläen Verlag, Berlin, were to have published the set but in the event the artist was the sole publisher. Though it was based on an original <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/collage" title="Glossary definition for 'Collage'"><span>collage</span></a> in black and white, the technical data on the making of ‘Nettleton’ lists eight colour screens and <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/embossed" title="Glossary definition for 'Embossed'"><span>embossing</span></a>.
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<br/>This entry and the following three have been approved by the artist.
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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
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction artist’s notes colour diagrammatic emotions, concepts and ideas film, music and ballet formal qualities geometric inscriptions lifestyle and culture literature and fiction musical analogy music: Ives, Charles non-representational pattern society symbols and personifications