Astronaut II 1963

• Astronaut II
• Catalogue raisonné no. 26
• Artist's CR 023
• 1963
• London
• Oil and silver spray paint on canvas
• 12 x 10 inches / 30 x 25 cm

Exhibitions:
• Paintings of Photographs/Photographs of Paintings, Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, 1963
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• Space, Speed, Sex: Works from the early 1960s by Gerald Laing, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, 2006
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• Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing, Lévy Gorvy, London, London, 2018
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Literature:
• Gerald Laing, 'Aspen Notebook', unpublished manuscript, 1966
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• Space, Speed, Sex: Works from the early 1960s by Gerald Laing, exhibition catalogue, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, 2006
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Selected Citations and Comments

Astronaut II was a smaller, simpler attempt [than Astronaut I] with the accoutrements silver and unmodelled and the face in dots on white.

Gerald Laing, 'Aspen Notebook', unpublished manuscript, 1966