GERALD LAING

Pendulum

Catalogue raisonné no. 60

Artist's CR 058

1964

New York

Oil on irregular, shaped canvas

84 x 40 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• Gerald Laing: Paintings, Drawings, Constructions, Prints, Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1965
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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:
• 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

While clearly a skydiver with his parachute beginning to deploy [Pendulum] has prominent abstract qualities. The figure is more generalised and symmetrical, and the shape of the canvas has its own agenda, creating a paradox between it and the image painted on it. It is well on the way to complete abstraction.

Gerald Laing, 'Artist's notes', unpublished manuscript, date unknown