GERALD LAING

Portrait of Clovis Aet. 2 Weeks

Catalogue raisonné no. 578

Artist's CR 538

September, 1993

New York

Bronze and nickel-plated bronze

Edition of 10

9 x 4.5 x4.5 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• 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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Literature:
• 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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Selected Citations and Comments

My head of Clovis was inspired by [Aimé-Jules] Dalou’s head of a baby and Dalou is one of the most profoundly Romantic sculptors I can think of. He influenced British sculpture enormously during his exile here as a result of his involvement with the Paris Commune of 1872, a political commitment typical of a Romantic sculptor.

Gerald Laing, Gerald Laing: Sculpture at Chisenbury, exhibition catalogue, Chisenbury Priory, 2002