Property from the Abrams Family Collection
Gerald Laing
Dragster III
Auction Closed
October 16, 07:07 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Gerald Laing
1936 - 2011
Dragster III
oil and pencil on shaped canvas
158.5 by 300.5 cm. 62¼ by 118¼ in.
Executed in 1963.
Please note that this painting has been requested for a forthcoming exhibition of Gerald Laing’s work scheduled to take place at the National Museum of the Automobile in Turin in the autumn of 2026.
Harry N. Abrams, New York (acquired circa 1964)
Robert E. Abrams, New York (by descent from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
London, R.B.A. Galleries, Young Contemporaries, January – February 1964, no. 82, p. 8
London, Saint Martin’s School of Art, Gerald Laing, Keith Lingard, David Milne, April 1964
David Knight, ed., Gerald Laing: A Catalogue Raisonné, London 2017, no. 31, p. 43, illustrated in colour
