Ashtray

Location

Country: Lebanon
City: Beirut
Place: British Embassy

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

ashtray

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Michael Craig-Martin (1941 - )

Title

Ashtray

Portfolio Title

Alan Cristea Gallery Twentieth Anniversary Portfolio

Edition

31/40

Date

2014

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

height: 50.00 cm, width: 50.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Greenhouse Sports, May 2015

Inscription

verso, centre: 31/40 Michael Craig-Martin 2014

Provenance

Alan Cristea Gallery; sold in aid of Greenhouse Sports and Cancer Research UK, 2015

GAC number

18650/4