Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
R. B. Kitaj
The Novelist (My Neighbour, Anita Brookner)
Session begins in
November 15, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Bid
13,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
R. B. Kitaj
1932 - 2007
The Novelist (My Neighbor, Anita Brookner)
signed Kitaj, titled and dated August 1993 (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
unframed: 101.5 by 51cm.; 40 by 20in.
framed: 125 by 75cm.; 49¼ by 29½in.
Executed in 1993.
The Artist
Private Collection
Timothy Hyman, 'The comic high priest of diaspora', Times Literary Supplement, no. 4757, 1 July 1994, illustrated p. 16
Eckhart Gillen, (ed.), R.B. Kitaj: Confession of an Old Jewish Painter, Schirmer/Mosel, 2017, illustrated p. 284
London, Tate Gallery, R.B. Kitaj: A Retrospective, 16 June - 4 September 1994, no. 113, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 189
New York, Marlborough Gallery, R.B. Kitaj: How To Reach 72 In A Jewish Art, 1 March - 2 April 2005, no. 1, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 20
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