Michael Craig-Martin Art For Sale: Deluxe Edition of 'Drawing' (Book) Plus Print 'Book'
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Artist: Michael Craig-Martin (Ireland, 1941))
Title: Deluxe Edition of 'Drawing'. The book is accompanied by a limited edition signed and numbered original print, entitled 'Book'.
Year: 2015
Description: This deluxe hand-bound, cloth-covered book (total pages 600, 300 illustrations), is presented in a custom-designed luxurious solander box. The 300 drawings are indexed on the final leaf.
Book Dimensions: 26 x 26 cm, in box 54 x 51 cm
Print Dimensions: 50cm × 47.5 cm
Book Medium: Artist’s Book ISBN: 9781910392195
Print Medium: The print is stored in a wallet in the solander. Printed letterpress at Thumbprint Editions on 225gsm Zerkall 902 smooth white paper
Edition: One of fifty signed and numbered books and one of fifty signed and numbered prints by Michael Craig-Martin. Other copies of this edition are stored at the National Gallery of Australia and the Yale Center for British Art.
Published by: Enitharmon Editions
Printed by: Plitt GmbH in Oberhausen, Germany
Provenance: Purchased by ArtFair.co.uk at the Royal Academy London from the book's publishers Enitharmon Editions.
Background: Michael Craig-Martin comments: "For these drawings there are no 'originals' in the usual sense. In the early days I drew each object in pencil on paper and traced it in fine tape on acetate. I then destroyed the pencil drawings. Since the mid-’90s I have drawn directly on a computer using the mouse as pencil.
No hard copy exists unless I print or paint one. In the beginning I intended my drawings to look as styleless as possible, without any hint of my personal intervention, but after making hundreds over the years it became clear that they did have a style, which is now recognisable as my style.
In a sense this can be seen not as a book of reproductions, but of originals."
Price: £1,900
We would personally deliver it to you for free anywhere on the UK mainland, and you can see it in your home or office before payment. We show you the piece, and if for any reason you decide not to purchase, we simply take it away, i.e. you will not have to wrap or ship it back to us.
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