Michael HaleCanon 3, 19791979
Signed, titled and dated ‘79 in pencil to margin
Screenprint
(w)67 × (h)83 cm
Framed
numbered 34/40 50 x 61cm / 19.75 x 24” (to mount)
£400
Photography
James Robertson
About the Artist
Born in London, Michael Hale studied at Norwich School of Art (1952–56), and the Royal Academy Schools, London (1956–60).
A pioneering screenprinter, Hale worked as a master printing technician at the groundbreaking Kelpra Studio. Hale’s work is largely definable as ‘Hard-Edged Abstraction’, a movement born in the late 1950s in reaction to the wholly emotive Abstract Expressionism, and characterised by crisply de-lineated geometric colour fields – much cooler and stylised in tone.
