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Official website of the R.B. Kitaj Estate and R.B. Kitaj Studio Project. Ronald Brooks Kitaj is considered a key figure in European and American contemporary painting.
R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) was a figurative painter who combined Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism with literary and cultural references. Explore his biography, artworks, dealers, events, and news on artnet.
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Painter, printmaker and draughtsman R. B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj was born to a Hungarian father and an American mother (of Russian-Jewish immigrant parentage) in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on 29 October 1932. After his parents divorced, his mother married Walter Kitaj, a Viennese-Jewish refugee and research chemist, and Kitaj took his stepfather's name.
News. Ronald Brooks Kitaj (American, 1932–2007) was an artist loosely associated with the Pop Art movement and best known for his brightly-colored, figurative paintings that allude to political history and the effects of mass media on modern life. Born in Cleveland, OH, Kitaj studied at the Royal College of Art in London alongside David ...
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R.B. Kitaj was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1932. He studied at the Cooper Union Institute in New York, the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, the Ruskin School, Oxford, and the Royal College of Art, London. His first solo exhibition - Pictures with Commentary. Pictures without Commentary - was held at Marlborough Fine Art, London, in 1963.
Jan 25, 2024 · R. B. Kitaj. Our next Artist You Need To Know is R. B. Kitaj (1932 – 2007). He was an American painter, printmaker, and draughtsman who spent the majority of his life in England, being an integral part of post WW II British art. Kitaj was one of the most prominent figures of the British Pop art movement. From here : “While his work has been ...
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Jan 23, 2018 · R. B. Kitaj: Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter (Eckhart J. Gillen, ed.) is published by Schirmer/Mosel (€39.80). From the January 2018 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The painter’s posthumously published memoir, written in his final years, forcefully conveys his obsession with posterity, writes Tim Adams.
