Pop art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi's study for London Tube station mosaic offered at Edinburgh auction

When London’s Tottenham Court Road Underground station started its £400m refurb, one of the trickiest tasks was not the tracks, the signals, ticket office or any of the usual suspects. Instead, it was tackling 950 square metres of mosaics designed by one of the most celebrated of 20th century British artists.

Originally installed in the 1980s, they were the work of Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005), an artist reg…

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