GERALD LAING

Portrait of Malcolm Morley II (etched glass and lithography)

Catalogue raisonné no. 384

Artist's CR 362a

Ingrams and Halliwell no. 65

1976

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Etched Glass over lithography (lithography by Robert Arber)

Edition of 15

19.2 x 15.2 inches / 0 cm

Exhibitions:
• Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, 1983
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• Space, Speed, Sex: Prints and Multiples 1965–1976, Sims Reed Gallery, London, 2006
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Literature:
• Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, exhibition catalogue, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, 1983
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• Gerald Laing: Sculpture 1968–1999, exhibition catalogue, The Fine Art Society, 1999
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• Lindsey Ingram and Rupert Halliwell (eds.), Gerald Laing Prints and Multiples: A Catalogue Raisonné, Sims Reed Ltd, London, 2006
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• Space, Speed, Sex: Prints and Multiples 1965–1976, exhibition catalogue, Sims Reed Gallery, 2006
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Selected Citations and Comments

I first saw the etched glass technique on the windows of a customised van in New Mexico, where I spent a year in 1976-7 teaching at the University. In these works I used it to extend the possibilities of printmaking. The imagery is figurative and highly stylised.

Gerald Laing, Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, exhibition catalogue, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 1983