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.

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)

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