This work is based on a painting Laing made between 1962 and 1965, and he hand-printed it in his loft in New York. Laing explained that the inspiration for works such as ‘Just Another Pretty Face’, grew from the “new commercial images which were appearing around us…after the peeling stucco of war-time neglect. I was transfixed by the crude but powerful printing process used in the poster advertisements, and the ambivalence between the whole image which they contained, and the means by which it had been created – the dots and lines and cacophony of form and colour visible at short range, and the reassuring integrity of the image at a distance”.