GERALD LAING

Cléo from 5 to 7

Catalogue raisonné no. 5

Artist's CR 002

1962

London

Oil on canvas

48 x 25 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• Gerald Laing: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963
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• Young Contemporaries 63, RBA Galleries, London, 1963
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• Paintings of Photographs/Photographs of Paintings, Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, 1963
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• When Britain Went Pop. British Pop Art: The Early Years, Christie’s King Street, London, 2013
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• Gerald Laing 1936–2011: A Retrospective, The Fine Art Society, London, 2016
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Literature:
• Gerald Laing: Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Laing Art Gallery, 1963
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• Gerald Laing, 'Aspen Notebook', unpublished manuscript, 1966
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• David Mellor, The Sixties Art Scene in London, exhibition catalogue, Barbican Art Gallery, 1993
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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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• Marco Livingstone and Amanda Lo Iacono, When Britain Went Pop. British Pop Art: The Early Years, exhibition catalogue, Christie’s King Street, 2013
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• Gerald Laing 1936–2011: A Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, 2016
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Selected Citations and Comments

A painting done at home after Lolita Through the Keyhole. Very fine grained dots - the smallest I ever attempted and a conscious effort to reach that extreme. Noteworthy mainly for the fact that because it depicted a girl in a swing, I had special aluminium brackets fabricated on which the whole painting could itself swing. These brackets foreshadowed later application of mechanical interests to art. I did try even to have lightening holes drilled in them, much the same as those found on racing cars, but could not find a technician to do it. Cléo was taken from a poster advertising Agnes Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7.

Gerald Laing, 'Aspen Notebook', unpublished manuscript, 1966

Image of French actress Corinne Marchand.

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