"Captivating in its sheer size and direct presentation, Gerald Laing's Brigitte Bardot is a quintessential pop image of the international screen siren of the Swinging Sixties,"
"the source for the painting of Brigitte Bardot... was the logo on the request for entries for the 1963 Young Contemporaries exhibition-a black and white photograph of Brigitte Bardot on which a black circle had been superimposed"
"Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that,"
"In each of the paintings, Bardot's carnal beauty fills the square canvas in the manner of a record cover, her voluptuous, leonine features framed by abundant, tousled hair,"
Brigitte Bardot died aged 91. She was a famed French actress in the 1950s and 1960s and starred in And God Created Woman (1956). She became an artists' muse and inspired major pop and modern painters and printmakers. Gerald Laing's 1963 painting of Bardot sold for £902,500 at Christie's in London in 2014 and was described as a quintessential pop image of the Swinging Sixties. Laing said the work used a black-and-white photograph with a superimposed black circle as its source. Andy Warhol produced a 1974 series of Bardot screenprints. Other artists including Kees van Dongen and Peter Engels painted Bardot, while Picasso hosted her at his studio but likely never painted her.
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