Eduardo Paolozzi, Lithograph with personal dedication to Frank Martin, legendary head of sculpture department at St. Martin's School of Art, 1980

Eduardo Paolozzi

RARE Lithograph with personal dedication to Frank Martin, legendary head of sculpture department at St. Martin's School of Art, 1980

This lithograph is a uniquely inscribed Artist's Proof, bearing a personal inscription and dedication in pencil by British Pop Artist Eduardo Paolozzi to sculptor Frank Martin, head of the sculpture department of Saint Martin's School of Art from 1952 to 1979. Frank Martin brought young and forward-thinking sculptors into the department to teach, among them Anthony Caro, Isaac Witkin, Robert Clatworthy, Elizabeth Frink, and Eduardo Paolozzi. They and those round them came to be known as the New Generation of British sculptors. In the 1960s and 1970s the sculpture department at Saint Martin's was, in the words of Tim Scott: "the most famous in the art world". A rare piece - with very special provenance. 

Pencil signed, dated, annotated and inscribed to Frank Martin; bears publishers' distinctive blind stamp

Provenance: Estate of Frank Martin