Glasses (1987)

Michael Craig-Martin

painted steel

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Photo credi: Doug Atfield

Classification:

Sculpture

Materials:

Steel, Oil

Physical Object Description:

Painted steel glasses, 1987

Dimensions:

66 x 72 x 10.3 cm

Accession Number:

GMA5191

Credit:

Donated by Eric and Jean Cass through the Contemporary Art Society, 2012

Scheme:

Eric and Jean Cass Gift (2010 - 2012)

Ownership history:

Purchased at auction from Bonhams, London: Post-War and Contemporary Art, 5 June 1991 (lot 84) by Eric and Jean Cass; by whom gifted to the Contemporary Art Society, 2012; presented to Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (National Galleries Scotland), 6 August 2012

Relationship:

Bonhams (Messers W. & F.C. Bonham), London Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Eric and Jean Cass Eric Victor Cass

Subject:

Paraphernalia

The Dublin-born Martin Craig-Martin RA returned to London from a year's sabbatical in New York in 1982 when he started to make his three-dimensional wall 'drawings' that were actually made of steel. Glasses (1987), he said, ''generalises the object, gives it [a] diagrammatic quality…I want my pictures of objects to look as much like unadulterated facts as the objects themselves.” In the early 1960s Craig-Martin also spent five years teaching at Yale School of Art and had been immersed in Pop art, Mimimalism, Conceptual art as well as the music, design and architecture of that time in the USA. Glasses was made before he turned to 'big colour' in his artworks that he is best known for today.

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