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A TRIUMPH OF FIGURATION: SELECTIONS FROM THE JOEL AND CAROLE BERNSTEIN FAMILY COLLECTION
R.B. KITAJ, R.A. (1932-2007)
Germania (Vienna)
Details
R.B. KITAJ, R.A. (1932-2007)
Germania (Vienna)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Germania (Vienna) Kitaj 1987' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
47 ¼ x 60 in. (120 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 1987.
Germania (Vienna)
signed, inscribed and dated 'Germania (Vienna) Kitaj 1987' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
47 ¼ x 60 in. (120 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 1987.
Provenance
with Marlborough Fine Art, London.
The Saatchi Collection, by 1989.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 5 December 2005, lot 58, where purchased by the present owner.
The Saatchi Collection, by 1989.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 5 December 2005, lot 58, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
A. Hicks, New British Art: In The Saatchi Collection, London, 1989, p. 59, no. 45, illustrated.
M. Livingstone, Kitaj, London, 1999, p. 217, no. 436, pl. 174.
M. Livingstone, Kitaj, London, 1999, p. 217, no. 436, pl. 174.
Exhibited
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, R.B. Kitaj: An American in Europe, January - March 1998, no. 36: this exhibition travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, April - June 1998; Vienna, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien, June - August 1998; and Hannover, Sprengel Museum, September - November 1998.
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