Cléo from 5 to 7
Catalogue No. 5
Artist's CR 002
1962
London
Oil on canvas
48
x
25
inches
/
122
x
64
cm
Collection: Private collection
Exhibitions:
- Gerald Laing: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963
- Young Contemporaries 63, RBA Galleries, London, 1963
- Paintings of Photographs/Photographs of Paintings, Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, 1963
- When Britain Went Pop. British Pop Art: The Early Years, Christie’s King Street, London, 2013
- Gerald Laing 1936–2011: A Retrospective, The Fine Art Society, London, 2016
Literature:
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Gerald Laing: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Laing Art Gallery, 1963
- Gerald Laing, 'Aspen Notebook', unpublished manuscript, 1966
- David Mellor,
The Sixties Art Scene in London, exhibition catalogue, Barbican Art Gallery, 1993
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Space, Speed, Sex: Works from the early 1960s by Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, 2006
- Marco Livingstone and Amanda Lo Iacono,
When Britain Went Pop. British Pop Art: The Early Years, exhibition catalogue, Christie’s King Street, 2013
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Gerald Laing 1936–2011: A Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, 2016
A painting done at home after Lolita Through the Keyhole. Very fine grained dots - the smallest I ever attempted and a conscious effort to reach that extreme. Noteworthy mainly for the fact that because it depicted a girl in a swing, I had special aluminium brackets fabricated on which the whole painting could itself swing. These brackets foreshadowed later application of mechanical interests to art. I did try even to have lightening holes drilled in them, much the same as those found on racing cars, but could not find a technician to do it. Cléo was taken from a poster advertising Agnes Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7.
'Aspen Notebook', Gerald Laing, unpublished manuscript, 1966
Image of French actress Corinne Marchand.