Monseigneur Ungar

细节

R. B. Kitaj (1932-2007)
Monseigneur Ungar
oil on canvas
10¼ x 8 in. (26 x 20.3 cm.)
Painted in 1958.

出版

Exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, R.B. Kitaj: A Retrospective, London, 1994, p. 58, illustrated.
M. Livingstone, Kitaj, London, 2010, p. 265, no. 6.

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拍品专文

The present work has been dated to 1958, the year in which Kitaj was studying at the Ruskin School of Art and is one of only a few known works to survive from this date. It precedes his move to London in the following year to study at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney with whom he remained a life-long friend and shared a reciprocal influence.
'R.B. Kitaj was a close colleague of mine for 48 years. We met on our first day at the Royal College of Art, London in Sept 1959. He was a great inspiration to me (and many others). He believed in painting. He believed content was more important than form, although he also knew they were one' (The Collection of R.B. Kitaj, Christie's, London, 2008, p. 20).
Monseigneur Leopold Ungar became head of Caritas Austria, and received the 1984 Bruno Kreisky prize for services to Human Rights.