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R.B. Kitaj.(R.B. Kitaj, painter of the human condition)(Ronald Brooks Kitaj)(Obituary)
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The Economist (US)
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November 3, 2007
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Ronald Brooks Kitaj, painter of the human condition, died on October 21st, aged 74
WHEN he was very young, Ronald Kitaj ran away to sea. He joined the SS Corona bound for Cuba and Mexico, a fresh-faced Cleveland boy who carried his sketchbooks with him and knew, already, that art was all he wanted to do. And as he travelled, he drew. Before long he had lost his virginity in a Havana brothel and had plunged deep into the reeking taverns and alleyways of port life--a life that was to go on resurfacing, in bold, tortured figurative painting, for the rest of his career.
He was restless always. Teaching art in London in the 1960s, he would slip away from his family at ...
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