Gerald Laing 1936-2011
Kate Moss, 2007
signed, titled, dated on canvas verso
oil on canvas
painted in London
painted in London
32 x 20 inches | 81 x 51 cm
Kate Moss, Amy Winehouse and Victoria Beckham were the young female celebrities who captured Laing’s imagination in the latter stage of his career. He resurrected his ‘Pop’ style to portray...
Kate Moss, Amy Winehouse and Victoria Beckham were the young female celebrities who captured Laing’s imagination in the latter stage of his career. He resurrected his ‘Pop’ style to portray them - as he had done his earlier starlets - as removed from ‘our’ reality, seen through the media lens. Kate Moss has been abstracted almost to the point of being unrecognizable. The lower half of her bikini takes the shape of a cocktail glass, alluding to her hedonistic lifestyle.
[from the exhibition catalogue of 'Gerald Laing - Myth & Muse: the cult of celebrity', The Fine Art Society, 2024]
[from the exhibition catalogue of 'Gerald Laing - Myth & Muse: the cult of celebrity', The Fine Art Society, 2024]
Provenance
The artist's estate, catalogue raisonné no. 699 (Artist's CR 638)Exhibitions
ocontemporary Gallery, New Paintings for Modern Times, London, 2008;
The Fine Art Society, Gerald Laing 1936-2011, A retrospective, London, 2016
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