The Kiss II
Catalogue No. 704
Artist's CR 643
2008
Kinkell
Oil on canvas
72 x 62 inches / 183 x 157 cm
Collection: Private collection
This is educated Pop art, toasting Rembrandt, Ingres and Manet - great-great-granddaddy of Pop - with a bottle of Bass nicked off ‘The Bar at the Folies-Bergères’. In surprisingly tender images like ‘The Kiss II’, 2008… Laing reprises Sixties cool with feeling: his technique is unaltered, but he is older and wiser.
[untitled], Laura Gascoigne, The Spectator Magazine, 1st November 2008