LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
71.46 in. (181.50 cm.) (height) by 44.76 in. (113.70 cm.) (width)
Markings:
signed, inscribed and dated 'GERALD LAING UNTITLED, 1963'
Exhibited:
London, Royal College of Art, RBA Galleries, Young Contemporaries, 1963 (detail illustrated, on the cover).London, St Martin’s School of Art, Paintings of Photographs/Photographs of Paintings, 1963.London, Barbican Art Gallery, The Sixties Art Scene in London, 1993, p. 238 (illustrated, p. 153; detail illustrated with the artist, p. 152).Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Gerald Laing 1963-1993 A Retrospective, 1993 (illustrated in colour, pl. 2).Lisbon, Fundação das Descobertas Centro Cultural de Belém, The POP ‘60s Transatlantic Crossing, 1997, no. 132 (illustrated in colour, p. 162).London, The Fine Art Society, Gerald Laing Sculpture 1968-1999, 1999, no. 1 (illustrated in colour, p. 1).Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Global Village: The 1960s, 2003-2004, p. 192, no. 102 (detail illustrated in colour, p. 92).Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes, British Pop, 2006, pp. 220-222 and 434-435, no. 66 (illustrated in colour, p. 221).London, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert Gallery, Space, Speed, Sex: Works from the early 1960s by Gerald Laing, 2006, p. 20 (illustrated in colour, p. 21; detail illustrated in colour, on the cover, and detail illustrated with the artist, p. 19).Rome, Scuderia del Quirinale, Pop Art 1956-1968, 2007, p. 164, no. 44 (illustrated in colour, p. 165).Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Pin Up: Pop Art and Popular Culture, 2010-2011.London, Christie’s Mayfair, When Britain Went Pop, British Pop Art: The Early Years, 2013, pp. 20 and 358 (illustrated in colour, p. 149 and detail illustrated with the artist, p. 148). .
Literature:
D. E. Brauer, Pop Art U.S./U.K. Connections, 1956-1966, 2001, p. 83, fig. 74 (detail illustrated with the artist, p. 82).R. Halliwell and L. Ingram, Gerald Laing Prints and Multiples Catalogue Raisonné, London 2006, p. 79 (detail illustrated with the artist, p. 78).
Provenance:
The Artist.Acquired from the Young Contemporaries exhibition by the present owner in 1963.