Richard Hamilton
Inscribed in pencil 'For Mark with love from Richard'.
Collotype and screenprint in colors on Deutsch-Japan papier mounted to board.
[sheet: 10 by 14 in. 254 by 357 mm; mount: 15⅛ by 19¼ in. 384 by 489 mm].
Executed in 1982, this impression is a proof aside from the numbered edition of 100 plus ten artist's proofs published by Waddington Graphics.
Mark Lancaster was born in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire in 1938 and died in April 2021 at the age of 82.
Mark Lancaster was well known in both England and in the United States as an artist and a designer; he studied under Richard Hamilton and worked for Andy Warhol, through whom he met famed Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler. From 1974-1985 he worked as Jasper Johns’ assistant and during this time he also began a celebrated tenure as the set, costume and lighting designer for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. His paintings could be seen at the Betty Parson’s Gallery, the Paris Biennale and the National Gallery of Art. As a printmaker he worked with Editions Alecto, and Simca Studios.