Intimate Relations: Sunglasses
Michael Craig-Martin (1941 - )
Screenprint
2001-
About the work
- Location
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Country: Sri Lanka
City: Colombo
Place: British High Commission
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About the artist
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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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- paintbrush, sunglasses, chair
- Materials & Techniques
- screenprint
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Details
- 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