History 2

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Parliamentary Counsel, 1 Horse Guards Road

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

ladder, sack barrow, fire extinguisher, globe, coat, sunglasses, wine glass (as Subject), bottle rack

Materials & Techniques

screenprint

Artist

Michael Craig-Martin (1941 - )

Title

History 2

Edition

1/50

Date

2001

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

height: 57.40 cm, width: 75.30 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Alan Cristea Gallery, June 2001

Inscription

below image, bl: 1/50 below image, br: Michael Craig Martin 2001

Provenance

Alan Cristea Gallery, London

GAC number

17606/2