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Article: Welcome to the Hotel California.(painter R.B. Kitaj returns to California after his 40-year art career in London is criticized there)(Art)(Brief Article)
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- April 27, 1998
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R.B. Kitaj was revered and happy in London for 40 years. Then the critics took it all away. Now the painter is picking up the pieces in Los Angeles.
Painter R. B. Kitaj is starting over. Last summer the expatriate American artist packed up and left London--his home for 40 years--after one of the bitterest rows in British art history. Ronald Brooks Kitaj (pronounced kee-tie) and his 13-year-old son, Max, moved into a house practically next door to the artist's older son, screenwriter Lem Dobbs ("Kafka," "Dark City"), in west Los Angeles. Kitaj--at 65 a smallish, handsome man with a rough complexion and closely cropped white hair--turned the living room into a ...
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