GERALD LAING

Galina II

Catalogue raisonné no. 311

Artist's CR 291

1973

Edinburgh

Bronze

Edition of 10

11.75 x 8 x9 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, 1976
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• Gerald Laing: A Retrospective 1963–1993, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1993
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• Independent Gallery, London, 1993
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• Gerald Laing: The Galina Series, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, 1994
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• Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1968–1999, The Fine Art Society, London, 1999
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• Gerald Laing: Sculpture at Chisenbury Priory, Chisenbury Priory, East Chisenbury, 2002
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• Gerald Laing: From 1963 to the Present, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, 2004
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• Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1965–1978, The Fine Art Society, London, 2008
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• Gerald Laing 1936–2011: A Retrospective, The Fine Art Society, London, 2016
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Literature:
• Gerald Laing: A Retrospective 1963–1993, exhibition catalogue, The Fruitmarket Gallery, 1993
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• Gerald Laing, 'From Here to Apostasy', Art Review, April
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• Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1968–1999, exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, 1999
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• Gerald Laing: Sculpture at Chisenbury Priory, exhibition catalogue, Chisenbury Priory, 2002
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• Gerald Laing: From 1963 to the Present, exhibition catalogue, Bourne Fine Art, 2004
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• Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1965–1978, exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, 2008
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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

Back at Kinkell I began another sculpture using the comparatively small amount of clay I had left.  It was a head of Galina, now known as Galina II.  She suggested making up for it, and put on extravagant eye make up and violet cloche hat. It is strange that I have now forgotten the colour of the hat. It was a standard 1920’s type, but it came from Biba. Above all it put me in mind of the welded steel sculpture of a similar subject by Gonzales which had nudged me when I first saw it in a catalogue of his works. It was a roughly drawn welded steel head, with the arc of the brim of the cloche hat very clearly articulated. Looking at a catalogue of Picasso’s sculpture, in the creation of which Gonzales was very much involved, I realised how full of humour they are. Galina II was influenced not only by Gonzales, but also Brancusi.

Gerald Laing, 'Gerald Laing: An Autobiography', unpublished manuscript, 2011

Inspired by Julio González’s sheet-metal relief sculpture, Femme au Chapeau (1929).

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