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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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