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Article: R.B. Kitaj at Marlborough.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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For those who missed R.B. Kitaj's 1994-95 traveling retrospective [see A.i.A., Mar. '95], Marlborough's recent show of paintings and drawings provided a solid survey of this American-born School-of-London artist's career. Although weighted toward work made since 1997 (the year Kitaj returned to the U.S.), the exhibition had many pieces from the 1970s and 1980s, and even one from 1968 (a sly, diminutive painting based on a photograph of the Nazi-loving English aristocrat Unity Mitford).
The show's title, "How To Reach 67 in Jewish Art: 100 Pictures," announced its retrospective nature as well as the presence of a theme which has assumed ever-increasing importance ...
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Article: R.B. Kitaj at L.A. Louver.(Venice, Cal.)
Art in America;
October 1, 2003 ;
700+ words
...R.B. Kitaj's "Los Angeles Pictures," made since ... suddenly in 1994, and since Kitaj moved back to southern ... her, his "angel." Los Angeles No. 18 (2002) is among ... naked acts of yearning. Kitaj paints himself in bed ...
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