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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.
Title
Sir Paul Getty (1932–2003), KBE
Date
1996
Medium
bronze, plated with nickel
Measurements
H 62 x W 46 x D 30 cm
Accession number
H192
Acquisition method
commissioned by the National Gallery in honour of Sir Paul Getty, KBE, benefactor of the gallery, 1997
Work type
Bust
Inscription description
inscribed on the back, bottom: JOHN PAUL GETTY KBE 1996 GERALD LAING / FECIT
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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