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| Martin Sharp, Mister Tambourine Man, 1967 |
Hearing of the death of Martin Sharp took me back to hairy, adolescent
days, to what was undoubtedly a formative engagement with visual culture. As a schoolboy ‘agent’ for selling posters (‘Big
O’?), recruited from/suckered in by the ads at the back of New Musical Express I pored over the catalogue in which Sharp’s
Dylan and Van Gogh posters stood out. But the one that made the deepest
impression was his Max ‘The Birdman’
Ernst: this was certainly my first introduction to the work of Ernst – though
it was some time before I twigged that the image was not actually the invention
of Sharp but culled from Ernst’s brilliant 1933 collage novel Une Semaine de Bonté. Though my taste later turned more to Ernst than Sharp those early posters (and Cream album covers) made a deep impression.
Read obituaries by Marsha Rowe, Richard Neville (ce-editor of Oz, for which Sharp was art editor) and in The Telegraph.
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| Martin Sharp, Vincent, 1968 |
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| Martin Sharp, cover for Cream's Disraeli Gears, 1967 |
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| Martin Sharp, Jimi Hendrix, 1967 |
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| Martin Sharp, Max 'The Birdman' Ernst, 1967 |
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