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Malta (for Chris & Rose)
Details
R.B. KITAJ, R.A. (1932-2007)
Malta (for Chris & Rose)
signed and inscribed 'R.B. KITAJ MALTA' (on the canvas overlap)
oil and collage on canvas
60 ¼ x 96 ¾ in. (153 x 245.8 cm.)
Painted in 1974.
Malta (for Chris & Rose)
signed and inscribed 'R.B. KITAJ MALTA' (on the canvas overlap)
oil and collage on canvas
60 ¼ x 96 ¾ in. (153 x 245.8 cm.)
Painted in 1974.
Provenance
with Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above by 1975, and thence by descent.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above by 1975, and thence by descent.
Literature
R. Hughes, 'Still Able to Surprise', Time Magazine, 20 October 1975, p. 79, illustrated.
J. Clair, Nouvelle Subjectivité, Brussels, 1979, p. 26, no. 3.
R.B. Kitaj, First Diasporist Manifesto, London, 1989, p. 56, illustrated.
M. Livingstone, Kitaj, Oxford, 1985, n.p., no. 162, pl. 49.
P. Gilmour, ‘R.B. Kitaj and Chris Prater of Kelpra Studio’, in J. Aulich and J. Lynch (eds.), Critical Kitaj: Essays on the Work of R.B. Kitaj, Manchester, 2000, pp. 82-110, 214-22.
M. Livingstone, Kitaj, London, 2010, p. 268, no. 171, pl. 52.
R. B. Kitaj, Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter, Munich, 2017, p. 88, no. 45, illustrated.
J. Clair, Nouvelle Subjectivité, Brussels, 1979, p. 26, no. 3.
R.B. Kitaj, First Diasporist Manifesto, London, 1989, p. 56, illustrated.
M. Livingstone, Kitaj, Oxford, 1985, n.p., no. 162, pl. 49.
P. Gilmour, ‘R.B. Kitaj and Chris Prater of Kelpra Studio’, in J. Aulich and J. Lynch (eds.), Critical Kitaj: Essays on the Work of R.B. Kitaj, Manchester, 2000, pp. 82-110, 214-22.
M. Livingstone, Kitaj, London, 2010, p. 268, no. 171, pl. 52.
R. B. Kitaj, Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter, Munich, 2017, p. 88, no. 45, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, British Painting '74, September - November 1974, no. 118, as 'Malta'.
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, European Painting in the Seventies: New Work by Sixteen Artists, September - November 1975, no. 50, as 'Malta': this exhibition travelled to St. Louis, Art Museum, March - May 1976; and Elvehjem, Art Center, June - August 1976.
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, European Painting in the Seventies: New Work by Sixteen Artists, September - November 1975, no. 50, as 'Malta': this exhibition travelled to St. Louis, Art Museum, March - May 1976; and Elvehjem, Art Center, June - August 1976.
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