Gallery exhibition
R.B. Kitaj
Los Angeles Pictures
Installation photography, R.B. Kitaj: Los Angeles Pictures
Installation photography, R.B. Kitaj: Los Angeles Pictures
Installation photography, R.B. Kitaj: Los Angeles Pictures
Installation photography, R.B. Kitaj: Los Angeles Pictures
Installation photography, R.B. Kitaj: Los Angeles Pictures
Installation photography, R.B. Kitaj: Los Angeles Pictures
Installation photography, R.B. Kitaj: Los Angeles Pictures
R.B. Kitaj / My Fourth Jewish Abstract, 2002 - 2003 / 
oil and charcoal on canvas / 
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Self Portrait As A Mondrian, 2001 – 2003 / 
oil on canvas / 
12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / XXI Self Portrait, 2002 – 2003 / 
oil on canvas / 
24 x 24 inches (61 x 61 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 14, 2002 - 2003 / 
oil on canvas / 
20-1/8 x 24-1/8 inches (50.8 x 60.9 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 11, 2002 – 2003 / 
oil on canvas / 
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 8, 2002 / 
oil on canvas / 
36 x 21 inches (91.4 x 57.2 cm) / 
Private collection
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 20, 1990 – 2003 / 
oil on canvas / 
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 153 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 15, 2002 / 
oil on canvas / 
48 x 48 inches (122 x 122 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 21, 2003
oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Not for sale
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 10, 2002 – 2003 / 
oil on canvas / 
24 x 60 inches (61 x 152.4 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 6, 2001 / 
oil on canvas / 
48 x 48 inches (122 x 122 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 7, 2001
oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 16, 2001 – 2002
oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches (122 x 122 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 17, 2002 / 
oil on canvas / 
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm) / 
Private collection
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 9, 1969 – 2002 / 
oil on canvas / 
60 x 47 inches (152.4 x 120.7 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 4, 2000 – 2001 / 
oil on canvas / 
72 x 36 inches (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 19, 2003 / 
oil on canvas / 
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 18, 2002 / 
oil on canvas / 
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm) / 
Private collection
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 22, 2001 / 
oil on canvas / 
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 12, 2002 / 
oil on canvas / 
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Los Angeles No. 13, 2002 / 
oil on canvas / 
36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm) / 
Private collection
R.B. Kitaj / Three Abstracts Unerased, 2000 – 2003 / 
pastel and charcoal on paper with oil / 
22 x 15 inches (57.8 x 38.7 cm) / 
Private collection
R.B. Kitaj / Young Mondrian (after his self portrait),
2001 – 2003 / 
pastel and charcoal on paper with oil / 
22 x 15 inches (56.5 x 38.7 cm) / 
Private collection
R.B. Kitaj / Self Portrait 2003, 2002 – 2003 / 
charcoal on paper / 
30 x 22 inches (77.5 x 57.2 cm) / 
Private collection
R.B. Kitaj / Self Portrait 2003, 2002 – 2003 / 
charcoal on paper / 
30 x 22 inches (77.5 x 57.2 cm) / 
Private collection
R.B. Kitaj / Proust, 2001 – 2003 / 
pastel and charcoal on paper with oil / 
30 x 22 inches (77.5 x 56.5 cm) / 
Private collection
R.B. Kitaj / Emily Dickinson, 2000 – 2003 / 
pastel and charcoal on paper with oil / 
22 x 15 inches (55.9 x 38.7 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Bucket Rider, 2002 – 2003
pastel and charcoal on paper
30 x 22 5/8 inches (77.5 x 57.5 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / UCLA Film Dept., 2001 – 2003 / 
charcoal on paper / 
30 x 22 inches (77.5 x 57.2 cm) / 
Private collection
R.B. Kitaj / Self Portrait (After Weegee), 2000 – 2003 / 
charcoal and pastel on paper with oil / 
22 x 30 inches (57.2 x 77.5 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / God’s Back, 1997 – 2000 / 
pastel and charcoal on paper / 
30 x 22 inches (77.5 x 57.2 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / Crouch Dance (Self Portrait), 2001 – 2003 / 
charcoal on paper / 
30 x 22 inches (77.5 x 57.2 cm)
R.B. Kitaj / After a self portrait by Pissarro, 2000 – 2003 / 
pastel and charcoal on paper with oil / 
30 x 22 inches (77.5 x 56.5 cm) / 
Private collection
21 Apr - 7 May 2003

artist profile


PUBLICATION

Kitaj: Los Angeles Pictures

Kitaj: Los Angeles Pictures
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
21 May - 5 July 2003
Foreword by Peter Goulds
essay by R.B. Kitaj
82 pages, 45 illustrations
Softback


SELECTED ARTICLE

Leah Ollman, "R.B. Kitaj at L.A. Louver"
Art in America, October 2003.
full article, PDF
LIST OF REVIEWS

Leah Ollman, "R.B. Kitaj at L.A. Louver."
Art in America, October 2003

Suzanne Muchnic, "R.B. Kitaj - L.A. Louver."
ARTnews, September 2003

Mat Gleason, “R.B. Kitaj. L.A. Louver.”
Modern Painters, Autumn 2003

Shana Nys Dambrot, “R.B. Kitaj. L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA.”
Tema Celeste, July/August 2003

David Cohen, “Renewal & Resistance. A Chat With The Artist."
The New York Sun, Monday, 30 June 2003

Luise Roug, “The art of an enduring love.”
Los Angeles Times, Friday, 20 June 2003

Tom Teicholz, “Kitaj the ‘Diasporist’. To live, paint and love in L.A.”
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 20 June 2003

Doug Harvey, “Godawfulism II. It ain’t what you paint (it’s the way that you paint it).”
L.A. Weekly, Thursday, 13 June 2003

Marlena Donohue, “R. B. Kitaj”
Art Scene, June 2003

Leah Ollman, “R.B. Kitaj roams far and wide for complex works.”
Los Angeles Times, Friday, 30 May 2003

Three day forecast: “R.B. Kitaj comes home”
Los Angeles Times, Thursday, 22 May 2003

Edward Goldman, “R.B. Kitaj Los Angeles Pictures at L.A. Louver Gallery.”
Art Talk Radio Show at KCRW 89.9 FM, Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, 20 May 2003

Brendan Bernhard, “Love and Orthodoxy. R.B. Kitaj and the man-woman story.”
L.A. Weekly, 16 May 2003
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