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JAMES HYMAN GALLERY
R.B. Kitaj (1933-2007)
Please scroll down for further information. R.B. Kitaj (1933-2007) Germania (The Engine Room) Signed, dated and inscribed on the overlap: 'Germania (Engine Room) 1983-86 Kitaj' Oil on Canvas 122.5 x 122.5 cms (48¼ x 48¼ inches) 1986 Painted 1983-86 Provenance: Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris (BL6003) Marlborough Fine Art, London anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1989, lot 530 (sold for £121,000) Exhibitions: London, Tate Gallery, R.B. Kitaj: a retrospective, June-September 1994, no.75 (illustrated p.155) The exhibition later travelled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1994- January 1995 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February- May 1995 Germania (Engine Room) is one of Kitaj's first major paintings to address directly Jewish experience and the horrors of the Second World War. For further information on Kitaj please click here This item is sold. Please click here if you wish to buy or sell a work by this artist. | ||||||||
