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Gerald Laing (Gerald Ogilvie-Laing) was born on 11 February, 1936 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is a British artist (1936–2011). Discover Gerald Laing's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Gerald Ogilvie-Laing
Occupation Artist, sculptor
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 11 February 1936
Birthday 11 February
Birthplace Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Date of death 23 November, 2011
Died Place Kinkell, Scotland
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Who Is Gerald Laing's Wife?

His wife is Jennifer Anne Redway (m. 1962-1967) Galina Vassilovna Golikova (m. 1969-1983) Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen (m. 1988)

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Wife Jennifer Anne Redway (m. 1962-1967) Galina Vassilovna Golikova (m. 1969-1983) Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen (m. 1988)
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Children 6

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1936

Gerald Ogilvie-Laing (11 February 1936 – 23 November 2011) was a British pop artist and sculptor.

He lived in the Scottish Highlands.

Laing was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 11 February 1936, a son of Maj. and Mrs. Gerald Ogilvie-Laing He grew up during World War II and experienced the Battle of Britain as young boy.

He was educated at Berkhamsted School, an independent school in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers as a lieutenant in Ireland and Germany.

He soon realized that the military was not what he was looking for and attended Saint Martin's School of Art in London.

1960

At the beginning of the 1960s, while still at Saint Martin's, Laing was introduced to artists in New York City, meeting Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Rosenquist and Robert Indiana.

After art school he moved there, and with his connections, his art career began to take off.

Laing's career took him from the avant-garde world of 1960s pop art, through minimalist sculpture, followed by representational sculpture and then back full circle to his pop art roots.

He also taught sculpture at the University of New Mexico and at Columbia University in New York City.

1962

In 1962, he married Jennifer Anne Redway, with whom he had one daughter.

1967

They divorced in 1967 and he married Galina Vassilovna Golikova, with whom he had two sons, in 1969.

1968

In 1968, Laing and his second wife found Kinkell Castle in the Black Isle of Ross and Cromarty, "a Z-plan stronghold that was the former seat of the clan Mackenzie, ruinous and in the hands of local farmer Angus MacDonald. Gerald paid £5,000 for it and spent the remainder of his life nurturing it into a family home, studio and workshop."

1970

His son Farquhar (b. 1970), the elder son from Gerald's second marriage, is the founder and director of the Black Isle Bronze foundry, "one of Europe's foremost bronze caster" and another son, Sam Ogilvie, owns Ogilvie Design Studio, which designs bespoke sculptural furniture and does commercial interior design work.

1983

They divorced in 1983 and in 1988, Laing was married to Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York by the Rev. C. Hugh Hildesley.

Adaline, a graduate from the Madeira School, attended Sarah Lawrence College and was a daughter of former U.S. Representative Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. and the former Beatrice Sterling Procter, an heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune.

Adaline, with whom he had two more sons, is the sister of Rodney Frelinghuysen, also a former U.S. Representative, and a granddaughter of the prominent New Jersey lawyer and banker Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen I.

1993

In 1993 the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh staged a retrospective exhibition of his work.

2002

Laing fathered his sixth child with Alison Urquhart in 2002.

2004

They were followed in 2004 by a series of Amy Winehouse paintings, as well as a painting of Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss.

2011

Laing died on 23 November 2011 at his home, Kinkell Castle.

2012

In 2012 Sims Reed Gallery staged an exhibition of his prints and multiples, his most comprehensive show of work to date.

Laing did a series of anti-war paintings, based primarily on photographs from the atrocities at Abu Ghraib.

These paintings were the beginning of his return to pop art.

On 19 February 2012 a bronze sculpture by Laing, Dreamer, was stolen from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

2014

In February 2014, Laing's Brigitte Bardot painting from 1963 work sold for £902,500 in an auction at Christie's in London, a record sum for the artist.

Sims Reed Gallery represents the Estate of Gerald Laing.

Laing was married three times and was the father of six children.