Pendulum
Catalogue No. 60
Artist's CR 058
1964
New York
Oil on irregular, shaped canvas
84 x 40 inches / 213 x 102 cm
Collection: Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London
While clearly a skydiver with his parachute beginning to deploy [Pendulum] has prominent abstract qualities. The figure is more generalised and symmetrical, and the shape of the canvas has its own agenda, creating a paradox between it and the image painted on it. It is well on the way to complete abstraction.
'Artist's notes', Gerald Laing, unpublished manuscript, date unknown