- Title:
- Sir Paul Getty K.B.E., 1932 - 2003
- Object name(s):
- Sculpture; British
- Brief description:
- This bust was commissioned by the National Gallery to acknowledge Paul Getty’s £50 million donation to the institution. It sits inside the Portico Entrance and was designed to make a pair with Sir Francis Chantrey’s marble bust of 1836 depicting Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough, a Victorian politician, a promoter and patron of the arts, and a founding Trustee of the Gallery.The sculptor, Gerald Laing, is best known for his work in bronze, made at the foundry he established at his home, Kinkell Castle, in the Scottish Highlands. After training at London’s St Martin’s School of Art, he spent the 1960s in New York, where he made his name first as a Pop Artist and then as a sculptor of minimal forms. Disillusioned, he returned to Britain and took up figurative art again, albeit continuing to experiment. Laing returned to Pop Art and painting in the early 2000s, producing a series of anti-war works focussing on the atrocities perpetrated at Abu Ghraib, and paintings of celebrities such as Amy Winehouse, Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1997
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1997
- Date - latest:
- 1997
- Credit line:
- Commissioned by the National Gallery in honour of Sir Paul Getty K.B.E., benefactor of the Gallery, 1997
- Current location:
- Main Vestibule
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/444/371/581/mid_H-0192-00-000009.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 2/968/787/639/mid_H-0192-00-000021.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 997/198/440/mid_H-0192-00-000018.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/286/290/137/mid_H-0192-00-000015.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 62.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 46.00
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 30.00
- Inscription content:
- Signed; Dated and inscribed
- Material:
- Bronze, plated with nickel
- Object name:
- Sculpture; British
- Object production date:
- 1996
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1996
- Date - latest:
- 1996
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1975-99
- Object production person:
- Gerald Laing
- Person's birth date:
- 1936
- Person's death date:
- 2011
- Other number:
- H192
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0F6E-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- H192
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- M674
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-037X-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- h2192
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Contextual Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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