THE ARTIST

R. B. Kitaj / 1996
Oil on canvas

The artist, clothed in a red gown, at work in this painting looks as if he is some kind of wizard. The life-sized female figure, whose lower body extends outside the canvas, appears as if she is receiving the life force through the wizard's magic. The highly descriptive nature of the drawing indicates the artist's outstanding skills in this area, while the surface qualities of the boldly painted bright colors are one of the most typical characteristics of Kitaj's art.

The Hoam Museum, Korea

SELECTED LINKS:

"La Lucha del Pueblo Espanol por su Libertad"
from the In Our Time portfolio, 1969
photo-screenprint on paper.

• THE SCHOOL OF LONDON
  
  
• "THE HUMAN CLAY," essay by R.B. KITAJ
  
  
• Kitajat Kunstnere
  
  
• Kitaj: In Our Time
  
  
• Kitaj: Legacy Project
  
  
• Kitaj: Dancing with the Masters
  
  
• National Portrait Gallery
  
  
• Kitaj at Marlborough NYC December 2000
  
  
• Kitaj at Marlborough Fine Art, London
  
  
• Thomas Dean & Co
  
  
• Pop Art por Image & Art
  
  
• Google Image Search
  
  
• mexplaza.com

IMAGES ON LINE:

• Image: Juan de La Cruz
  
  
• Image: Maxim Gorky's Articles and Pamphlets, 1969, silkscreen
  
  
  
  
• Image: The Jew, Etc., 1979
  
  
• Image: Drancy, 1984-86
  
  
• Image: Germania (The Tunnel), 1984-85
  
  
• Image: If Not, Not, 1984-85   (enlarge)
  
  
• Image: Passion Writing, 1985
  
  
• Image: The Jewish Rider, 1984-85
  
  
• Image: The Listener (Joe Singer in Hiding), 1980   (enlarge)
  
  
• Image: Portrait of Baron Sieff
  
  
• Image: Portrait of Ernst Gombrich
  
  
• Image: Marynka Smoking
  
  
• Image: Fifties Grand Swank, 1980, silkscreen
  
  
• Image: Hotel Sorbonne, 1990   (enlarge)
  
  
• Image: John Ashbery,1997, etching   Marborough
  
  
• Image: His New Freedom, 1978, drawing   source
  
  
• Image: The Neo Cubist (David Hockney), oil on canvas
  
  
• Image: The Leftist, 1997, drypoint
  
  

SELECTED BIBLIOBRAPHY

• R. B. Kitaj Paintings (exhibition catalogue), Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, 1963
  
  
• R. B. Kitaj (exhibition catalogue), Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1970
  
  
• The Human Clay (exhibition catalogue), an exhibition selected by R. B. Kitaj, Haywood Gallery London, for Arts Council of Great Britian, 1976
  
  
• R. B. Kitaj Picutes/Bilder (exhibition catalogue), introduction by Robert Creeley, Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1977
  
  
• Peter Goulds, This Knot of Life (exhibition catalogue), L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California, 1979; with essay The Human Clay edited by R. B. Kitaj, London, August,1979.
  
  
• R. B. Kitaj (exhibition catalogue), Simithsonian Instituttion, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 1981; text by John Ashbery, etc.
  
  
• Marco Livingstone, R. B. Kitaj, Phaidon, Oxford, 1985
  
  
• British Art in the 20th Century, edited by Susan Compton, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1986
  
  
• A School of London: Six Figurative Painters (exhibition catalogue), essay by Michael Peppiatt, The British Council, 1987
  
  
• Paul Huxley, ed. Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art, Phaidon, Christie's, & Royal College of Art, 1988
• Alistair Hicks, The School of London: the resurgence of contemporary painting, Phaidon Press Limited, Oxford, 1989
  
  
• Alsitair Hicks, New British Art in the Saatchi Collection, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1989
  
  

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Silkscreen of Francis Bacon by R.B. Kitaj