Stacy
1968
from the Baby baby wild things portfolio 1968
Medium
colour screenprint
Measurements
75.1 × 47.5 cm (image) 89.0 × 58.5 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Douglas Kagi through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2014
© Courtesy of the artist's estate
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
British artist Gerald Laing’s Baby Baby Wild Things portfolio is among the most celebrated of his late-1960s Pop prints. Named after an all-girl rock band formed by his wife, Galina, the series draws on the iconic imagery of pin-up girls, fashion models and starlets. Laing later remarked: ‘I was transfixed by the crude but powerful process used in poster advertisements … the cacophony of form and colour visible at short range, and the reassuring integrity of the image at a distance.’ This fascination is evident in the artist’s distinctive use of flat colour fields and enlarged halftone dots.
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Laing 24
Edition
ed. 57/200
Accession Number
2014.201
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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