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Cubist Elephant Advertising Sculpture by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1973

Name: Cubist Elephant Advertising Sculpture by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1973
Price: 1955 USD
Availability: InStock

$1,955

Rivers Art & Design

Lunteren, NL

Condition Notes: Patina Consistent with Age and Use Patina Consistent with Age and Use less

Description: Acrylic resin / linoleum. 1970s.

Cubist elephant advertising box made from acrylic resin/ linoleum. It still contains the original advertising … more Acrylic resin / linoleum. 1970s.

Cubist elephant advertising box made from acrylic resin/ linoleum. It still contains the original advertising brochures.

The Scottish graphic designer and sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi was commissioned by the linoleum company Nairn Floors to promote their products to architects and designers in the 1970s. 3000 were made - a limited number have survived. Examples can be found in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum amongst other collections.

The top of the elephant is a lid that can be removed to reveal an inner compartment containing a selection of pamphlets/ brochures. One of the brochures details the design process from conception to the production stage of the elephant itself.

It has the artists impressed signature and is marked as number 630 from an edition of 3000. It has a presentation card with an indistinct signature (R/D?.Day) as well as all the pamphlets that were supplied with the box. This piece has an attribution mark,
I am sure that it is completely authentic and take full responsibility for any authenticity
issues arising from misattribution less

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