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This late painting by R. B. Kitaj began its life in 1988 as an elevation in blues of the modernist Cohen house by the architects Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953) and Serge Chermayeff (1900–1996) in Old Church Street, Chelsea, just around the corner from where Kitaj was then living and working in London. In 2004, by now transplanted to Los Angeles, Kitaj completed the foreground. He writes: 'It is a strange painting, done in stages over many years. It is a sort of frieze showing a few painters in my London circle in a free-form kind of style. . . . The initials stand for Kitaj, (Lucian) Freud, (Frank) Auerbach, my late wife Sandra Fisher, and (Leon) Kossoff.' Notably, all of these painters were either not born in Britain or had parents who fled to London to escape persecution in their former homelands.
Title
School of London Diasporists
Date
1988–2004
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 91.4 x W 152.4 cm
Accession number
B2007.17
Acquisition method
gift of the artist
Work type
Painting
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