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Portrait of Eduardo Paolozzi

David Mach, 2004

Kirkcaldy Galleries, Kirkcaldy
© David Mach and © Frank Thurston

Mach has used a collage of an enlarged photographic portrait of Paolozzi taken by Frank Thurston and surrounded it with a collage created from a combination of 3000 postcards showing Paolozzi's studio as recreated at the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh, photographed through a fish-eye lens.

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Title of artwork, date

Portrait of Eduardo Paolozzi, 2004

Date supported

2005

Medium and material

Photographic collage

Dimensions

176.5 x 176.5 cm

Grant

5106

Total cost

10213

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