Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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. Major retrospectives of his work have been held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1989), the Serpentine Gallery (2015), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016). 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 taught from the early 1970s and remains Professor Emeritus of Fine Art. Young British Artists’ Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas number among his former pupils. Craig-Martin was a Trustee of the Tate between 1989-1999 and was made a CBE in 2001.

Places

Subjects

globe, torch, filing cabinet, chair

Materials & Techniques

book (as part of work of art (artists materials)), book (as art object name), screenprint

Artist

Michael Craig-Martin (1941 - )

Title

Book (Portfolio edition)

Edition

30/150

Date

1997

Medium

Twenty page bound artist's book of ten double page screenprinted colour images, bound in grey cloth cover and contained in matching box.

Dimensions

height: 33.00 cm, width: 54.20 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Yvonne Andrews, April 1999

Inscription

on colophon page: 30/150 / Michael Craig-Martin 1997

Provenance

Purchased 1999 from Yvonne Andrews.

GAC number

17390