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Ursula of Coenties Slip 1963

  • Ursula of Coenties Slip
  • Catalogue raisonné no. 17
  • Artist's CR 014
  • 1963
  • New York
  • Oil on canvas
  • 60 x 50 inches / 152 x 127 cm

Selected Citations and Comments

The first painting I did in America was a large head of Ursula Andress, taken from a still preview of Dr No. It was an automatic follow-on from the paintings with which I had been involved before I left England, and it was ill-considered in scale and composition but served to break the ice. I later destroyed it.

Gerald Laing, 'Aspen Notebook', unpublished manuscript, 1966