Ursula of Coenties Slip
Catalogue No. 17
Artist's CR 014
1963
New York
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 inches / 152 x 127 cm
Destroyed by artist
The first painting I did in America was a large head of Ursula Andress, taken from a still preview of Dr No. It was an automatic follow-on from the paintings with which I had been involved before I left England, and it was ill-considered in scale and composition but served to break the ice. I later destroyed it.
'Aspen Notebook', Gerald Laing, unpublished manuscript, 1966