Lot 5: § KEITH MILOW, BRITISH b. 1945. Print of part of James Sterling's History Faculty Building, Cambridge University,

§ KEITH MILOW, BRITISH b. 1945. Print of part of James Sterling's History Faculty Building, Cambridge University, on layered transparent medium with diagonal cross, sand filled between layers.

PROVENANCE: gifted to Michael Compton by the artist. The History Faculty Building, Cambridge University designed by James Sterling was completed in 1968 and awarded a Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal in 1970. It caused much discussion among those who admired the architect and those who had to use the library which proved user-unfriendly.

This lot is part of a single owner collection of 28 lots to include Roy Lichtenstein, Marcel Broodthaers, Terry Frost, Henry Moore, Richard Long, Victor Newsome, Keith Milow, Billy Al Bengston, Ian Stephenson, Sol LeWitt and Joe Tilson.

KEITH MILOW, b.1945: An abstract sculptor, painter and printmaker. Educated at Camberwell School of Art 1962-1967, and the Royal College of Art 1967-1968. At the RCA Milow had access to facilities for experimental printing of which this work is a very fine example. The subject matter suggests it was made between two exhibitions in which Milow showed work, 'Young Contemporaries' 1967 (Tate Britain) and 'Six at the Hayward' (Hayward Gallery, London 1969) with which Compton was connected. In 1970 Milow received a Gregory Fellowship from Leeds University, which was followed in 1972 by a Harkness Fellowship to the USA. Awards included the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation award (1976), and the Arts Council of Great Britain major award (1979). During the 1970s Milow's work was shown by the young dealer Nigel Greenwood, along with artists such as Gilbert & George and was included in The New Art exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London 1972, organised by the Art's Council of which Compton was a panel member. From 1980 to 2002 Milow lived in New York; in 2002 he moved to Amsterdam where he still lives and works.

h:21 w:31 in.