GERALD LAING

The Dream

Catalogue raisonné no. 513

Artist's CR 477a

1987

New York

Bronze

9.25 x 14.25 inches / 0 cm

Literature:
• Gerald Laing, 'Notes for the 1993 Retrospective Exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh', unpublished manuscript, 1993
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Selected Citations and Comments

The composition refers to a medieval illumination showing an armed knight kneeling before his charger to receive his shield from his lady in a mystical/religious ceremony typical of the Middle Ages. However, in my dream the horse became a cow, and the knight is transformed into a child.

Gerald Laing, 'Notes for the 1993 Retrospective Exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh', unpublished manuscript, 1993