with The Robert Devereux Collection of Post-War British Art
Exhibition History:
London, RCA, A Perfect Place to Grow, 16 November 2012 – 3 January 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Colourful Lives of Artists, 30 April – 30 June 2013;
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, A Personal Passion, 25 April – 5 July 2015;
Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, The Human Face, 27 January – 12 March 2016;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017;
London, Business Design Centre, London Art Fair Museum Partner, Ten Years – A Century of Art, 18 – 22 January 2017;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, London|Forward Facing, 26 September 2017 – 18 July 2018;
Sheffield, Museums Sheffield, Darkness into Light, 20 October 2018 – 13 January 2019;
Oxford, Brasenose College, 1 October 2019 – 30 September 2020
Literature:
M. Livingstone, Kitaj, London, 2010 (no. 973, pl. 249)
American by birth, R.B. Kitaj had lived in Britain for forty years before returning to live in Los Angeles in 1997. This painting shows Kitaj as an older man in his mid-seventies, a year before he died. As in Self Portrait with Greta Prozor, he depicts a work of art in the background.
