Maquette for Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins - Panic
Catalogue No. 410
Artist's CR 379f
1978
Kinkell
Bronze
27 x 24 x5 inches / 69 x 61 x13 cm
Collection: Private collection
A consequence of the attitude of the previous figure. The realisation that ‘in the midst of life we are in death’, that life may be seen as a fragile rod which suspends us over a dark abyss, and which may be cut without warning at any time.
Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, 1983
A study for Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (cat. number 411).