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Maquette for Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins - Panic 1978

  • Maquette for Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins - Panic
  • Catalogue raisonné no. 410
  • Artist's CR 379f
  • 1978
  • Kinkell
  • Bronze
  • 27 x 24 x5 inches / 69 x 61 x13 cm

Selected Citations and Comments

A consequence of the attitude of the previous figure. The realisation that ‘in the midst of life we are in death’, that life may be seen as a fragile rod which suspends us over a dark abyss, and which may be cut without warning at any time.

Gerald Laing, Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963–1983, exhibition catalogue, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, 1983

A study for Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins (cat. number 411).

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