Maquette for Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins - Wistfulness (Patti Smith) 1978
Maquette for Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins - Wistfulness (Patti Smith)
Catalogue raisonné no. 409
Artist's CR 379e
1978
Kinkell
Bronze
Edition of 6
27 x 26 x5 inches / 0 cm
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An Exhibition of Sculpture by Gerald Laing at the Edinburgh Festival 1978, Gladstone Court, Edinburgh, 1978chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, 1983chevron_right
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An Exhibition of Sculpture by Gerald Laing at the Edinburgh Festival 1978, exhibition catalogue, Gladstone Court, 1978chevron_right
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Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, exhibition catalogue, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, 1983chevron_right
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Gerald Laing, 'Gerald Laing: An Autobiography', unpublished manuscript, 2011chevron_right
Selected Citations and Comments
Patti Smith as the Wisest Foolish Virgin, so designated because during the period when I was making the sculpture she sang a song in which she challenged God to show himself and then fell off the stage and chipped a vertebrae. You could say that at least she was looking. Her image is taken from her LP entitled Radio Ethiopia. She was in Edinburgh and saw the maquette for the sculpture when I exhibited it during the 1978 Edinburgh Festival. She prodded her modelled bronze hand, and declared, “that’s a fine hand for playin’ a gee-tar.”
, 'Gerald Laing: An Autobiography', unpublished manuscript, 2011, ch.45
The wisest of the Foolish Virgins, this figure sensed the truth, but failed to act upon it. She is the only one of the Foolish Virgins who can see the departing Wise Virgins, and who is fully aware of the different fates of the two groups.
, Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, exhibition catalogue, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, 1983
A study for Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (cat. number 411).