A striking example from Eduardo Paolozzi’s groundbreaking Bunk! series, Fun Helped Them Fight captures the artist’s fascination with post-war American media, advertising, and wartime propaganda. Originally created in the late 1940s and later reproduced in screenprint form by Paragon Press in 1972, this version is an unsigned edition likely produced for educational or exhibition purposes.
Visually rich and conceptually bold, the work reflects Paolozzi’s early role in shaping Pop Art and his pioneering use of collage to critique consumer culture. Presented in a simple frame, it offers an affordable and iconic entry point into one of the most influential series of postwar British art.
| Medium: | Lithograph |
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| Size (Unframed): | 33 x 25 cm |
| Size (Framed): | 40 x 30 cm |
| Signed: | No |
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 – 2005) was one of the most important British artists of the late twentieth century. His work, which included sculpture, drawing, printmaking, textile design and film, was culturally omnivorous. It incorporated a vast range of images and objects from sources as diverse as Hollywood and science journals to the pickings of a junkyard and the sculpture of Michelangelo. Often called a founder of Pop Art, a term he neither liked nor acknowledged for his own work, his art captured the breadth of the modern world.
The Paolozzi Foundation was established by the artist in 1994 and became a registered charity in the same year with the objects “to advance the education of the public by the promotion of their appreciation of the fine arts and in particular works of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi”.
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