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Ronald Brooks Kitaj
R.B. Kitaj Orgasm: drawing of woman in ecstasy with pale pink and clay red

1975

About the Item

Printed in a rich terra cotta red on pale pink paper, Orgasm depicts a woman’s head in profile with a dark background. Kitaj was fascinated with the female form, often producing edgy and erotic work inspired by film stills and pulp novel covers. In this sensual print, Kitaj chose colors related to the body: pink, the color of lips and rosy cheeks, and dark red, evoking a rush of blood. With the composition cropped close to the woman's head, the viewer is left to imagine her nude body outside the frame. 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.” Plate 6.1 x 6.1 in. / 15.4 x 15.6 cm Paper 17.25 x 21.75 in / 44 x 55 cm Lithograph on pink Wookey Hole wove waterleaf paper. Edition of 30. Signed by the artist and numbered lower left in pencil. Catalogue reference: Jane Kinsman The Prints of R.B. Kitaj, Scolar Press in association with the National Gallery of Australia 1994, no. 84 Jennifer Ramkalawon Kitaj Prints: a catalogue raisonné, The British Museum Press 2013, no. 197, illustrated p. 179 Copies of this lithograph are in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
  • Creator:
    Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932-2007, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1975
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 17.25 in (43.82 cm)Width: 21.75 in (55.25 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
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  • Condition:
    This print is not pre-owned and has been stored in the publisher's archives since its publication.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1211214060292

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