ID 1175019
Lot 4 | R.B. KITAJ (1932-2007)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
Clerk's Dream
signed 'Kitaj' (lower right), signed again and inscribed 'Kitaj Clerk's Dream' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
78 x 25 in. (198.1 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted in 1972.
Provenance
with Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Private collection, Toronto, from whom purchased by Waddington Galleries, London, in February 1982.
with Marlborough Gallery, New York, where purchased by the present owner in November 1985.
Literature
M. Livingstone, R.B. Kitaj, London, Oxford, 1985, p. 157, no. 145.
M. Livingstone, Kitaj, London, 1999, p. 211, no. 145.
M. Livingstone, Kitaj, London, 2010, p. 267, no. 155.
| Artist: | Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932 - 2007) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932 - 2007) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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