102 ARTIST STUDIOS
Below The contents of Paolozzi’s Chelsea studio reflect his varied styles and wide-ranging interests
also had a studio) before he began his long association with the RCA.
One of the UK’s most honoured artists, in 1994 Paolozzi donated a large amount of work and the contents of his Chelsea studio in Dovehouse Street to the Dean Gallery, an 18th-century orphanage designed by Tomas Hamilton and converted into a gallery by Terry Farrell in 1999. Now known as Modern Two, it is part of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
In 1989 he was knighted. Sir Eduardo had become part of the establishment, as Henry Moore had before him. When asked what he thought of the new generation of artists, he said that conceptual and installation art would fade from fashion. It was short on intellect and did not involve craftsmanship. What next, then? Paris, he said, probably still had much to offer.
Atelier Brancusi, Paris
Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Arguably still the most versatile sculptor working in Britain since 1945, Eduardo Paolozzi was born in Leith, the son of Italian immigrants. Economic migrants, they set up an ice cream parlour. Interned at the start of the Second World War, eventually mother and son were allowed to carry on satisfying the Scots’ craving for soft ice cream. Paolozzi later studied at Edinburgh College of Art, St Martin’s and the Slade before going to work in Paris from 1947 to 1949, where he got to know both Brancusi and Giacometti. One of the first standard bearers for pop art, he was a founder of the Independent Group in 1952, later teaching for several years in Hamburg, Cologne and Munich (where he
Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi lived and worked in Paris for over 50 years along an alleyway, the Impasse Ronsin, where he gradually acquired space that he knocked together in order to have both a studio and a personal museum with work arranged in various groups. By the 1920s the exhibition space had become a work of art in its own right, a place where he would restage the layout and position of the work almost every day. As work was sold he filled the empty spaces with plaster casts. Te relationship between one piece of sculpture and another became so important to him that when Brancusi bequeathed his entire studio (completed works, sketches, furniture, tools, library, record library and photographs) to the French state in 1956, it was on the condition that the studio was reconstructed back to how it was at his death. Originally located in the Palais de Tokyo, the collection was moved to an exact replica outside the Centre Pompidou in 1977. Following flooding in 1990 the present reconstruction was designed by Renzo Piano, and is now home to 137 works by Brancusi.
Musée Rodin, Meudon
The Musée Rodin in Paris includes a 3ha sculpture garden and the Hôtel Biron, a jewel of Parisian rocaille architecture, which was where Rodin worked and is now a gallery. His home at Meudon, the Villa des Brillants, has been preserved and reconstructed.
Casa Azul, Coyoacán
Frida Kahlo’s father built the Blue House in 1904. Frida was born, lived and died here, and it was where she created most of her most famous work. The workspace was built in the 1940s by her partner Diego Rivera and is just as she left it, wheelchair and half-used tubes of paint and all.
Pollock-Krasner House, Springs, East Hampton
This wood-frame house and barn on Long Island, a 19th-century fisherman’s home, was where Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner lived and worked from 1945. It is all there, from his boots and jazz record collection, his paint-splattered floor and her paint-marked walls.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
In 1945, this derelict property was bought by Georgia O’Keeffe and transformed into an artistic oasis, an adobe abode that inspired her far more than New York: ‘You know, I never feel at home in the east like I do out here. I feel like myself and I like it,’ she said.
KEITH HUNTER
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