Kitaj in his Los Angeles studio.
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Introduction
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For nearly forty years the American-born painter RB Kitaj played a central role in British art. At the beginning of his career he became associated with artists like David Hockney, Peter Blake and others of the so-called Pop generation, but he also formed lasting friendships with fellow Jewish artists such as Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud.
Kitaj's Jewish identity in a post-Holocaust world is of central importance to his life and is a theme he has often explored in his work. In 1997 however, three years after the tragic and unexpected death of his wife Sandra Fisher at the age of 47, Kitaj returned to live in the United States and London lost one of its most colourful and influential personalities. This exhibition was the first showing of the work of RB Kitaj in London since his controversial retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1994.
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