Gerald Laing Abstract Sculptures
British, 1936-2011
Gerald Ogilvie Laing (11 February 1936 – 23 November 2011) was a British pop artist and sculptor. He lived in the Scottish Highlands. Laing was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1936. He grew up during World War II and experienced the Battle of Britain as young boy.
He attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers as a lieutenant in Ireland and Germany. He soon realized that the military was not what he was looking for and attended Saint Martin's School of Art in London.
At the beginning of the 1960s, while still at Saint Martin's, Laing was introduced to artists in New York City. He met Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Rosenquist and Robert Indiana. After art school he moved there, and with his connections, his art career began to take off.
Laing's career took him from the avant-garde world of 1960s pop art, through minimalist sculpture, followed by representational sculpture and then back full circle to his pop art roots.
In 1993 the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh staged a retrospective exhibition of his work. In 2012 Sims Reed Gallery staged an exhibition of his prints and multiples, his most comprehensive show of work to date. Laing did a series of anti-war paintings, based primarily on photographs from the atrocities at Abu Ghraib. These paintings were the beginning of his return to pop art. They were followed in 2004 by a series of Amy Winehouse paintings, as well as a painting of Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss.
On 19 February 2012 a bronze sculpture by Laing, Dreamer, was stolen from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. In February 2014, Laing's Brigitte Bardot painting from 1963 work sold for £902,500 in an auction at Christie’s in London, a record sum for the artist.to
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Artist: Gerald Laing
CAT Catalogue Raisonne Ref: Knight, CR-406 cast bronze sculpture British artist
By Gerald Laing
Located in New York, NY
Gerald Laing
Cat, 1983
Cast bronze (hollow core cast)
Bears artists full incised signature, artist's copyright logo, as well as stamped signature on the front, Edition 1/9
13 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches
A magnificent cast bronze sculpture, rarely seen on the market by Gerald Laing, one of the leading British artists of his generation. Catalogued as CR-406 in the 2017 Catalogue Raisonne published by Lund Humphries and the Estate of Gerald Laing. One of only nine editions. This work was acquired from the Estate of distinguished Pop Art collector Arthur C. Carr of Columbia University , who befriended many of the artists whose works he collected.
Editions of this work were exhibited in the following venues:
GERALD LAING: SCULPTURE 1968 - 1999
The Fine Art Society
148 New Bond Street
London UK
22 March - 15 April 1999
GERALD LAING
Albert Totah Gallery
152 Wooster Street
New York City
New York
USA, 24 January - 21 February 1987
GERALD LAING PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 1963-1983
Herbert Art Gallery
Jordan Well
Coventry
UK
10 September - 9 October 1983...
Category
1980s Pop Art Gerald Laing Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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