GERALD LAING

L’Après Midi D’un Faune

Catalogue raisonné no. 668

Artist's CR 609

2004

Kinkell

Oil on canvas

32 x 36 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• Gerald Laing: From 1963 to the Present, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, 2004
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• Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Kings College, Cambridge, 2005
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• Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Spike Gallery, New York, 2005
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• Gerald Laing: Iraq War Paintings, Globe Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2007
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Literature:
• Gerald Laing: From 1963 to the Present, exhibition catalogue, Bourne Fine Art, 2004
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• Gerald Laing, 'Artist’s Notes on War Paintings', unpublished manuscript, 2004
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Selected Citations and Comments

The graceful figure smeared in excrement, standing in a balletic pose in front of the gaoler with a truncheon, struck me as being so surreal and bizarre that I must be mistaken. No one could have gone to all that trouble. The image must represent something else.
Eventually I realised that it was in fact a scene from a rehearsal of a new production of the Nijinsky L’Après Midi d’un Faune. Evidently they intended putting it on to entertain the other prisoners.

Gerald Laing, 'Artist's Notes on War Paintings', unpublished manuscript, 2004