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Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Cap'n A.B Dick (A) gray fisherman portrait sou'wester hat R.B. Kitaj lithograph

1975

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Kitaj’s drawing is of a fisherman in profile, wearing a sou’wester: a collapsible rain hat. The image is a wry portrait, ostensibly of Albert Blake Dick, inventor of the mimeograph and founder of the AB Dick office supply company, based in Chicago. Cap'n A.B Dick (A) Two color lithograph on Barcham Green Badger Mamba hand made paper Paper 18 x 22.25 in. / 46 x 56.4 cm Image 6.75 x 8.1 in. / 17.4 x 20.6 cm Edition 32 + 6APs. Printed by Ernie Donagh, London, and published by Petersburg Press. Signed by the artist and numbered 6/32 lower left in pencil. There is another version of this print on heavyweight pink paper, edition of 20. A close friend of fellow Petersburg Press collaborator David Hockney, Kitaj was known as an expressive, superlative draftsman. Art critic Robert Hughes famously wrote of Kitaj in TIME magazine that “he draws better than almost anyone else alive.” A copy of this lithograph is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
  • Creator:
    Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932-2007, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1975
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.52 cm)
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  • Condition:
    In excellent condition having been stored in our flat file archives since its publication.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU121129532772

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