GERALD LAING

Astronaut II

Catalogue raisonné no. 26

Artist's CR 023

1963

London

Oil and silver spray paint on canvas

12 x 10 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• Paintings of Photographs/Photographs of Paintings, Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, 1963
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• Space, Speed, Sex: Works from the early 1960s by Gerald Laing, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, 2006
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• Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing, Lévy Gorvy, London, London, 2018
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Literature:
• Gerald Laing, 'Aspen Notebook', unpublished manuscript, 1966
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• Gerald Laing, Kinkell: The Reconstruction of a Scottish Castle, Latimer New Dimensions (1st edition 1974) and Ardullie House (2nd edition 1984), London (1974) and Dingwall (1984), 1974
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• Space, Speed, Sex: Works from the early 1960s by Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, 2006
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Selected Citations and Comments

Astronaut II was a smaller, simpler attempt [than Astronaut I] with the accoutrements silver and unmodelled and the face in dots on white.

Gerald Laing, 'Aspen Notebook', unpublished manuscript, 1966