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R B Kitaj: London to Los Angeles

Past exhibition
25 October 2023 - 26 January 2024 Piano Nobile
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Summary
R B Kitaj, London to Los Angeles

R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles was the first retrospective of the artist’s work in a decade. It provided a chronological overview of Kitaj's career, exploring the relationship between his art and the places he lived. Although he travelled widely, spending seasons and sometimes whole years in California, Catalonia, Paris and New York, Kitaj made London his home from 1959 – the year he entered the Royal College of Art – until 1997. For the last decade of his life, from 1997 to 2007, he lived in Los Angeles.

 

The exhibition included little-known early work of the fifties, the groundbreaking ‘collagist’ work of the sixties that established his reputation, and the life drawings and glowing paintings of the seventies, continuing through to Kitaj's rediscovery of painting in the eighties and his final period in Los Angeles. An accompanying publication includes original essays by Andrew Dempsey, Marco Livingstone and Colin Wiggins, in addition to extended excerpts from Kitaj’s letters to Livingstone, now held by the Tate Archive and published here for the first time.

 

Coinciding with the exhibition a selection of Kitaj's screen prints In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part are available to view via our online viewing room here. 

 

Piano Nobile represent the R.B. Kitaj Estate. 

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Works
  • R. B. Kitaj, Welcome Every Dread Delight, 1962
    R. B. Kitaj, Welcome Every Dread Delight, 1962
  • R. B. Kitaj, Nat Lib, 1962
    R. B. Kitaj, Nat Lib, 1962
  • R. B. Kitaj, Annabel on her Back, 1980
    R. B. Kitaj, Annabel on her Back, 1980
  • R. B. Kitaj, Self-Portrait (After Matteo), 1982
    R. B. Kitaj, Self-Portrait (After Matteo), 1982
  • R. B. Kitaj, Fulham Road Cinema Bathers, 1988
    R. B. Kitaj, Fulham Road Cinema Bathers, 1988
  • R. B. Kitaj, Los Angeles No. 28 (Hug), 2004
    R. B. Kitaj, Los Angeles No. 28 (Hug), 2004
Media
Publications
  • R.B. Kitaj

    R.B. Kitaj

    London to Los Angeles Andrew Dempsey, Marco Livingstone and Colin Wiggins, 2023
    Hardback
    Publisher: Piano Nobile Publication
    ISBN: 978-1-901192-64-3
    Dimensions: 28.8cm x 24.8cm
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Events
  • R.B Kitaj | Film Screening & Panel Discussion

    R.B Kitaj | Film Screening & Panel Discussion

    Courtauld Research Forum 14 Dec 2023
    The Courtuald, Vernon Sqaure Campus, WC1X 9EW 6 - 7.30pm In collaboration with the Courtauld Research Forum Piano Nobile are delighted to present a film screening and panel discussion on R.B. Kitaj. The event will include a screening of Colin Wiggins's film about Kitaj, made in 2001 to accompany the National Gallery exhibition Kitaj in the Aura of Cézanne and Other Masters . The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Colin Wiggins, former Special Projects Curator at the National Gallery; Jennifer Ramkalawon, Curator of Modern and...
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  • R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles

    R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles

    Gallery Talk and Tour by Michael Ajerman 13 Jan 2024
    Michael Ajerman is a New York-born artist and writer. In 2018 he was awarded the UCLA's Kitaj Research Fellowship. His scholarly and archival investigation of artists R.B. Kitaj and Walter Sickert culminated in the lecture, From Tipperary to Westwood, which he repeated in London this autumn at the Courtauld Research Forum. The talk will involve an informal discussion and tour of R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles , which will draw upon Ajerman's research in the Kitaj Archive. Michael Ajerman studied at the Corcoran School of Art, the New York Studio School,...
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Installation Views
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Press
  • John-Paul Stonard reviews R.B Kitaj at Piano Nobile

    John-Paul Stonard reviews R.B Kitaj at Piano Nobile

    London Review of Books December 14, 2023
    In the December issue of the London Review of Books John-Paul Stonard discusses Kitaj's 'bookish approach to painting' alongside Piano Nobile's exhibition.
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  • R.B Kitaj: a brilliant, prickly outsider who stuck to his artistic guns no matter what

    R.B Kitaj: a brilliant, prickly outsider who stuck to his artistic guns no matter what

    The Independent November 26, 2023
    In this weeks edition of The Independent, Mark Hudson reviews Piano Nobile's R.B Kitaj exhibition and considers why R.B Kitaj isnt better know.
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  • Art Critics v. the Intellectual Artist

    Art Critics v. the Intellectual Artist

    Alexander Adams Reviews Art, Culture & Literature November 25, 2023
    In Alexander Adam's recent blog he reviews Piano Nobile's RB Kitaj London to Los Angeles exhibition and discusses the territory of intellectualism in art.
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  • Laura Gascoigne reviews R.B Kitaj London to Los Angeles

    Laura Gascoigne reviews R.B Kitaj London to Los Angeles

    The Spectator November 18, 2023
    In this weeks edition of The Spectator, Laura Gascoigne reviews Piano Nobile's R.B Kitaj exhibition.
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  • Top Five Exhibitions in the UK

    Top Five Exhibitions in the UK

    Culture Calling November 6, 2023
    Culture Calling is an online space dedicated to celebrating and promoting the UK’s arts and culture industry. In a recent article published online they list...
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  • Art & Museum Magazine | Autumn 2023

    Art & Museum Magazine | Autumn 2023

    Andrew Hunt reviews R.B.Kitaj London to Los Angeles November 1, 2023
    In the Autumn edition of the Family Office Magazine suppliment, Art & Museum, Andrew Hunt reviews Piano Nobile's Kitaj exhibition.
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  • Anthea Gerrie explores Kitaj's Jewish connections

    Anthea Gerrie explores Kitaj's Jewish connections

    The Jewish Chronicle October 27, 2023
    'The Jewish artist who worshipped his wife : How R B Kitaj explored his Jewishness in his work, and made his spouse the Shechinah' Anthea...
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  • R B Kitaj Feature

    R B Kitaj Feature

    Artists & Illustrators October 24, 2023
    R. B Kitaj | London to Los Angeles featured in Artists & Illustrators magazine.
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  • Jonathan Jones reviews R.B Kitaj

    Jonathan Jones reviews R.B Kitaj

    The Guardian October 24, 2023
    Jonathan Jones explores Kitaj's 'sense of history' and gives Piano Nobile's exhibition four stars in a review of R.B Kitaj | London to Los Angeles,...
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  • Art Weekly

    Art Weekly

    The Guardian October 22, 2023
    R.B Kitaj | London to Los Angeles included in The Guardian's Exhibitions of the week.
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  • What to See

    What to See

    House & Garden October 22, 2023
    In the Novemeber edition of House & Garden FIONA McKENZIE JOHNSTON shares expert advice on what to see, do and buy including, Piano Nobile's R.B...
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  • R.B. Kitaj | An interview with the artist's son

    R.B. Kitaj | An interview with the artist's son

    The Times October 14, 2023
    In anticipation of Piano Nobile's R.B. Kitaj exhibiton Rachel Campbell Johnston interviews the artist's son, Lem Kitaj, for an article published in the Saturday Times.
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  • The American Magazine

    The American Magazine

    Feature Piano Nobile's upcoming R.B. Kitaj exhibition October 1, 2023
    Piano Nobile's upcoming exhibition R.B. Kitaj | London to Los Angeles features in The American Magazine.
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  • Art & Museum Magazine | Summer 2023

    Art & Museum Magazine | Summer 2023

    Kitaj in London September 1, 2023
    Art & Museum Magazine, a supplement of Family Office Magazine, publish an extended article on R.B.Kitaj and Piano Nobile's upcoming exhibiton in their Summer 2023...
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