Winehouse work
By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 01 February 2010
She said no to rehab but yes to a work of art by Gerald Laing. Bee-hived UK singer Amy Winehouse is pleased as punch with a picture made by the veteran British pop artist which shows the headline-hitting chanteuse as a housewife, vacuuming the carpet. Depicting the songstress as a domestic goddess appealed to Raye Cosbert, Winehouse’s manager, who duly bought the screenprint as a birthday present for Amy. “She absolutely loves it. It takes pride of place in her Camden home,” says Cosbert who is backing Morton Metropolis, a new art gallery in London's West End which opens this month with a selection of works by Laing depicting Winehouse in a range of guises.
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