Marlborough Contemporary Art!
R.B. Kitaj: The Exile at Home R.B. Kitaj, Los Angeles No. 7 (Double), 2001, Oil on canvas March 4 - April 8, 2017 Opening reception Saturday, March 4, 2017 6-8pm Marlborough Contemporary is pleased to present R.B. Kitaj: The Exile at Home curated, by Barry Schwabsky. R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) was one of the most prominent painters of his time, particularly in England where the American artist spent some four decades spanning the late 1950s through the late 1990s. 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