Astronaut II
Catalogue No. 26
Artist's CR 023
1963
London
Oil and silver spray paint on canvas
12
x
10
inches
/
30
x
25
cm
Collection: Private collection
Provenance:
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Private collection
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Private collection
Exhibitions:
- Paintings of Photographs/Photographs of Paintings, Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, 1963
- Space, Speed, Sex: Works from the early 1960s by Gerald Laing, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, 2006
- Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing, Lévy Gorvy, London, London, 2018
Literature:
- Gerald Laing, 'Aspen Notebook', unpublished manuscript, 1966
- Gerald Laing, Kinkell: The Reconstruction of a Scottish Castle, Latimer New Dimensions (1st edition 1974) and Ardullie House (2nd edition 1984), London (1974) and Dingwall (1984), 1974
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Space, Speed, Sex: Works from the early 1960s by Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, 2006
Astronaut II was a smaller, simpler attempt [than Astronaut I] with the accoutrements silver and unmodelled and the face in dots on white.
'Aspen Notebook', Gerald Laing, unpublished manuscript, 1966