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Gerald Laing

British, 1936–2011

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

PaintingPost-Impressionism

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

156

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Publications Referenced

90%

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Movements

• Post-Impressionism

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Popular Mechanics in Printmaking

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1970

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Pop Art Prints, Drawings, and Multiples

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1970

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The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1968–1969

About

Why this artist matters now

Gerald Laing pioneered a newsprint painting technique depicting mass-media imagery on large canvases, establishing him as a central figure in both American and British Pop art. His early work included iconic portraits like Brigitte Bardot (1968), created after encounters with Warhol and Lichtenstein in New York. After three decades working in sculpture, he returned to painting to address Abu Ghraib atrocities and celebrity mortality.

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Movement

Post-Impressionism

Medium

Painting

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate

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Artworks (73)

Untitled, from On the Bowery

1971 · Screenprint in color with collaged foil/mylar on white wove card

Sheet: 65 × 65 cm (25 5/8 × 25 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

In-text plate and text (folio 27) from DMT 42

1969 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-six screenprints

composition (irreg.): 14 1/4 x 12 11/16" (36.2 x 32.2cm); page: 16 3/4 × 13 5/16" (42.5 × 33.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Slipcase front (duplicate of wrapper front) from DMT 42

1969 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-six screenprints

irreg. composition 11 5/8 x 11 5/8" (29.6 x 29.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In-text plate and text (folio 19) from DMT 42

1969 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-six screenprints

composition (irreg.): 14 7/16 x 10 7/16" (36.7 x 26.5cm); page: 16 3/4 × 13 5/16" (42.5 × 33.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In-text plate and text (folio 29) from DMT 42

1969 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-six screenprints

composition (irreg.): 14 9/16 x 11 13/16" (37 x 30cm); page: 16 3/4 × 13 5/16" (42.5 × 33.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In-text plate and text (folio 21) from DMT 42

1969 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-six screenprints

composition (irreg.): 14 3/16 x 10 7/16" (36 x 26.5cm); page: 16 3/4 × 13 5/16" (42.5 × 33.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In-text plate and text (folio 11) from DMT 42

1969 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-six screenprints

composition (irreg.): 13 3/16 x 11 5/16" (33.5 x 28.7cm); page: 16 3/4 × 13 5/16" (42.5 × 33.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In-text plate and text (folio 25) from DMT 42

1969 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-six screenprints

composition (irreg.): 15 5/8 x 13 1/16" (39.7 x 33.2cm); page: 42 1/2 × 33 13/16" (108 × 85.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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André Dunoyer de Segonzac

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Henri Evenepoel

Shared movement

Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas

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Movements and affiliations

Post-Impressionism

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Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Phillips

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Popular Mechanics in Printmaking

New York · 1970

Group Exhibition Pop Art Prints, Drawings, and Multiples

New York · 1970

Group Exhibition The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age

New York · 1968