Woman with Long Hair

Details

Gerald Laing (1936-2011)
Woman with Long Hair
stamped and dated 'GERALD LAING 1975' (lower edge), signed, numbered and dated 'Gerald Laing/1974/1' (on the underside), and inscribed 'WOMAN WITH/LONG HAIR/FIRST VERSION' (on the underside)
bronze with a silver patina
9 in. (22.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

"In 1973 I had an epiphany while looking at Charles Sargeant Jagger's great First World War Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner. Its powerful, narrative and humanistic content made me realise that in order to produce more significant work I required an infinite vocabulary of forms which the limitations of sheet metal did not allow.
As a result of this experience I changed my entire method of working. I modelled my sculpture in clay and learned how to cast it into bronze. Galina I was the first in this new body of work...This period of my work represents a search for a figurative language. The Galina Series was made concurrently with various other sculpture, such as Reclining Figure, Woman with Long Hair and Torso. They were all figurative sources which I developed towards a greater or lesser degree of formal abstraction."

(see www.geraldlaing.com)

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