Blue Tangle

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Home Office, 2 Marsham Street

Kenneth Martin, a leading post-war artist, was born in Sheffield where he studied and worked before attending the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 1929. In 1930 he married Mary Martin (1907-1969) also a leading abstract artist. His first solo show was held at the Leicester Galleries in 1943 and he made his first kinetic sculptures in 1951. Martin taught at Goldsmiths’ College of Art from 1946 to 1967. In 1971 he was awarded an OBE and in 1976, an Honorary Doctorate at the RCA. A retrospective was held at the Tate in 1975. In 1985 a survey show of Martin’s drawings and paintings was held at the Serpentine Gallery, Londo while in 2007, an exhibition of Kenneth and Mary Martin’s work was held at the Camden Arts Centre in London.

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

board, oil, oil painting

Artist

Kenneth Martin (1905 - 1984)

Title

Blue Tangle

Date

1964

Medium

Oil on board

Acquisition

Purchased from Waddington Galleries, February 1977

Inscription

verso: inscribed & dated

Provenance

Peter Stuyvesant Collection, London

GAC number

12718