Location

Country: Sri Lanka
City: Colombo
Place: British High Commission

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

paintbrush, sunglasses, chair

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Michael Craig-Martin (1941 - )

Title

Intimate Relations: Sunglasses

Edition

24/50

Date

2001

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

height: 120.00 cm, width: 99.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Alan Cristea Gallery, August 2008

Inscription

below image: 24/50 / Michael Craig-Martin 2001

Provenance

Alan Cristea Gallery, London

GAC number

18208