Michael Craig-Martin
Art for Life, 2020
Original lithograph in colours on paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Signed and numbered by the artist
76 x 49.5 cm
Edition of 40 + APs
© Michael Craig-Martin
Sir Michael Craig-Martin (b. 1941 in Dublin, Ireland) grew up and was educated in the United States, studying Fine Art at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. He has...
Sir Michael Craig-Martin (b. 1941 in Dublin, Ireland) grew up and was educated in the United States, studying Fine Art at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. He has lived and worked in Britain since 1966.
His best-known works include An Oak Tree, 1973, in which he claimed to have changed a glass of water into an oak tree; his large-scale black-and-white wall drawings; and his intensely coloured paintings, installations and commissions, including the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, the Laban Dance Centre in London, the DLR station at Woolwich Arsenal, and, most recently the HDI Gerling Headquarters in Hanover.
Over the past forty-two years he has had numerous exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums across the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris and MoMa, New York. He represented Britain in the 23rd Sao Paolo Biennale. A retrospective of his work was presented at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1989, and a second at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2006, and a third at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2015.
His best-known works include An Oak Tree, 1973, in which he claimed to have changed a glass of water into an oak tree; his large-scale black-and-white wall drawings; and his intensely coloured paintings, installations and commissions, including the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, the Laban Dance Centre in London, the DLR station at Woolwich Arsenal, and, most recently the HDI Gerling Headquarters in Hanover.
Over the past forty-two years he has had numerous exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums across the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris and MoMa, New York. He represented Britain in the 23rd Sao Paolo Biennale. A retrospective of his work was presented at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1989, and a second at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2006, and a third at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2015.