Title:
Chance and Order V
Object name(s):
Print
Collection:
Government Art Collection
Acquisition note:
Purchased from Oxford Gallery, July 1974
Associated concept:
abstract
Associated date:
1972
Date - association:
Production
Date - earliest / single:
1972
Date - latest:
1972
Credit line:
© Estate of the Artist
Current location:
Consulate-General
Location address:
Sao Paulo
Edition number:
9/70
Inscription content:
br: Kenneth Martin 72 9/70
Object name:
Print
Object number:
11386
Object number:
00011386
Object production person:
Martin, Kenneth
Person's biographical note:
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.
Person's birth date:
1905
Person's birth date:
1984
Right note:
© Estate of the Artist
Right type:
Copyright
Technique:
Screenprint

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Use licence for this record: Open Government Licence

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