R.B. Kitaj 1932-2007
Images
Biography
R.B.Kitaj was born in America but spent much of his professional life in London. As a student at the Royal College of Art in the early 1960s he became great friends with David Hockney and was initially associated with Pop Art. He subsequently promoted the notion of a School of London as a way of drawing attention to the artists he most admired, becoming associated with Andrews, Auerbach, Bacon, Freud and Kossoff.
His visually striking yet iconographically complex pictures combine a variety of sources including literature, philosophy, movies and art.
His visually striking yet iconographically complex pictures combine a variety of sources including literature, philosophy, movies and art.
Works
Exhibitions
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Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century British Art
25 Mar - 25 May 2021Michael Andrews Colony Room Mural is an icon of British cultural history by one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. Painted on canvas, this picture was...Read more -
Beyond the Human Clay
5 May - 18 Jun 2011In 1976 the great figurative painter and polemicist R.B. Kitaj organized a group exhibition for the Arts Council of Great Britain entitled The Human Clay. To mark the 35th anniversary...Read more -
Museum Quality
The Colony Room Mural and Other Important Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 10 Jun - 22 Aug 2009In celebration we have made a selection of acknowledged masterpieces and little-known rarities from the Modern British inventory of James Hyman Fine Art. We will be exhibiting for the first...Read more -
A Tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson
21 Nov - 1 Dec 2007James Hyman is proud to present a personal tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson, one of Britain's greatest architects and art collectors of the last half-century. The exhibition follows...Read more
Publications
Art Fairs
