'D. Top: Culture: Monkeys May be the Next Space Travellers on US Made Satellites. Bottom: X-15's Maiden Flight', Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

Artwork details

Artist

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924‑2005)

Title

D. Top: Culture: Monkeys May be the Next Space Travellers on US Made Satellites. Bottom: X-15's Maiden Flight

From Cloud Atomic Laboratory

Date 1971

MediumEtching on paper

Dimensionsimage: 386 x 190 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by British Olivetti Ltd 1971

Reference

P03054

View this artwork by appointment, at Tate Britain's Prints and Drawings Rooms

Catalogue entry

Eduardo Paolozzi 1924-2005

P03051–P03058 Cloud Atomic Library 1971
Suite of etchings, each inscribed ‘Eduardo Paolozzi 1971 30/75’ b.r.

P03054 D. Top: Culture: Monkeys May be the Next Space Travellers on US Made Satellites. Bottom: X-15’s Maiden Flight

21 x 13¿ (53.5 x 35).
Presented by British Olivetti Ltd. 1971.
Repr: catalogue of Paolozzi retrospective, Tate Gallery, September–October 1971, pp. 36–41.

This suite was printed by Editions Alecto. The dimensions given above are those of the sheets. The artist wrote in the catalogue of his 1971 retrospective exhibition: ‘The original images were taken from a wide variety of sources and were often extremely small… (read more)