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R.B. Kitaj
O'Neill accuses Faulkner of lack of loyalty and support (Nancy & Jim Dine)

1970

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Ronald B. (R.B.) Kitaj Nancy and Jim Dine, or O'Neill accuses Faulkner of lack of loyalty and support (Kinsman 40), 1970 16 Color Silkscreen with collage and coating on different wove papers Hand signed and numbered in pencil 29/70 on the front. The back (which is framed) bears the Kelpra Studio blindstamp Frame included: held in the original vintage metal frame Very rare stateside. Other editions of this work are in the permanent collections of major institutions like the British museum, which has the following explanation: "The artist Jim Dine and his wife Nancy were close to Kitaj and his family, especially after the death of Elsi, Kitaj's first wife in 1969. They sometimes stayed with the Dines at their farm in Vermont during Kitaj's second teaching sojourn in the United States. Dine and Kitaj held a joint show at the Cincinnati Museum of Art in 1973. In the catalogue both artists contributed an insightful 'essay' on each other with Dine stressing Kitaj's obsession with all things American and baseball-related...' The alternate title, "O'Neill accuses Faulkner of lack of loyalty and support" can be seen on the artwork itself, and clearly is some kind of inside joke among friends. By the way -- do you see the way the colored dots are placed over the figures? Kitaj was doing this well before Baldessari who made it famous; that's how pioneering he was at the time. Referenced in the catalogue raisonne of Kitaj's prints, Kinsman, 40 Published and printed by Chris Prater of Kelpra Studio, Kentish Town, United Kingdom Ronald Brooks (RB) Kitaj Biography R.B. (Ronald Brooks) Kitaj was born in 1932 in Cleveland Ohio. One of the most prominent painters of his time, particularly in England where he spent some four decades spanning the late 1950s through the late 1990s, Kitaj is considered a key figure in European and American contemporary painting. While his work has been considered controversial, he is regarded as a master draughtsman with a commitment to figurative art. His highly personal paintings and drawings reflect his deep interest in history; cultural, social and political ideologies; and issues of identity. Part of an extraordinary cohort who emerged from the Royal College of Art circa 1960, which included Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, and David Hockney, Kitaj was immediately pegged as one of its leading figures. The London Times greeted his first solo show in 1963 as a long-awaited and galvanizing event: “Mr. R.B. Kitaj’s first exhibition, now that it has at last taken place, puts the whole ‘new wave’ of figurative painting in this country during the last two or three years into perspective.” In 1976, KItaj curated the exhibition The Human Clay, and in the essay he wrote for it he proposed the existence of a “School of London”—a label which stuck to a group of painters that includes Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews, and Kitaj himself. Kitaj “constructed in my head,” as he admitted, hoping that it might “become even more real,” a context in which his willfully contrarian art could make perfect sense. Later, his concept of “diasporism”—an art “enacted under peculiar historical and personal freedoms, stresses, dislocation, rupture and momentum” by one who “lives and paints in two or more societies at once”— gave more specific meaning to the sense of unease that had always been a part of Kitaj’s work. His various honors include election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. In 1985 he became the first American since Sargent to be elected to the Royal Academy. Numerous retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held, including shows at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; The Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany; The Jewish Museum, London, United Kingdom, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany. In 2001 the National Gallery London organized a solo exhibition of paintings titled, R.B. Kitaj In the Aura of Cezanne and Other Masters. In 1997, Kitaj left London and moved to Los Angeles, where he spent his days reading, writing, and focusing on his “late style” in his Yellow Studio in Westwood. He died at his home in 2007, one week before his 75th birthday. His death was followed by the publication of the Second Diasporist Manifesto by Yale University Press, and the celebration of his gift of his archive to the UCLA Library Special Collections with exhibitions at the Skirball Cultural Center and UCLA’s Young Research Library. Jim Dine Biography Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1935. He studied at the University of Cincinnati during his senior year of high school, later earning his BFA at Ohio University in 1957. Dine moved to New York in 1959 where he became a key figure in the Happenings movement. His talent was quickly recognized, leading to his first solo exhibition was held at the Reuben Gallery, New York in 1960. Although Dine’s prominence in the New York art scene led him to befriend Pop Art figures including Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein, his works strayed from the traditional subjects typically associated with that movement. Instead, the everyday objects Dine incorporates into his art are often personal possessions, lending a powerful sense of autobiography to his works. His continual concentration on favorite items like robes, tools, and hearts has become his signature style. In 1967 Dine moved to England with his family where he practiced the art of printmaking and drawing, for which he has become well known. After returning to the United States, figure drawing became Dine’s priority. During this period in his life he created many self-portraits, as well as intimate depictions of his wife, Nancy. In the 1980s Dine began producing sculptures; since then he has created many evocative sculptures in bronze, from table-top to monumental in size, including many of his iconic imagery: Venus, hearts, tools, portraits, seashells, parrots, apes and cats. Dine has been given solo exhibitions at museums throughout Europe and the United States, including a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1970, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1999, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 2004. -Courtesy Jonathan Novak
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    1970
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
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  • Condition:
    The print appears to be in fine condition; it has not been examined outside of its vintage 1970s metal frame. (Frames are not guaranteed). It is sold and ships framed.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1745213802082
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