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A hugely influential figure in the art world, Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin, grew up in the United States, and has lived in Britain since 1966. A major retrospective of his work was held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1989. His exhibitions have included large-scale wall drawings in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and wall paintings at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He is widely acknowledged for his influence as a teacher at Goldsmiths’ College in London, where he has taught since the early 1970s and where Young British Artists’ Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas number among his former pupils. Craig-Martin is Professor Emeritus of Fine Art at Goldsmiths; has been a Trustee of the Tate since1989, and was made a CBE in 2001.

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Subjects

piano, metronome

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Michael Craig-Martin (1941 - )

Title

Piano and Metronome

Date

1997

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

height: 88.80 cm, width: 45.80 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Alan Cristea Gallery, October 1998

Inscription

below image: [left] XXII/XXV [right] Michael Craig Martin 97

Provenance

Purchased from Alan Cristea Gallery October 1998

GAC number

17349