ARTWORKS 1962-2011

Storming of the Citadel, Badajoz 2000

Storming of the Citadel, Badajoz
Catalogue raisonné no. 638
Artist's CR 585
January - February, 2000
Kinkell
Bronze
445 x 630 x40 inches / 1130 x 1600 x102 cm

Literature:

Tam Dalyell, 'Gerald Laing: Artist whose work encompassed Sixties Pop Art and figurative sculpture', Independent, 25 November

Selected Citations and Comments

This relief, which is on display in the Fusiliers Museum, Northumberland, commemorates the participation of the 5th (Northumberland) Regiment of Foot in the Siege of Badajoz in 1812 during the Peninsula War. Laing served in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers from 1955 to 1960.

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