Details
R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007)
Bather (Wading)
signed 'Kitaj' (lower left)
pastel on joined sheets of paper
49 x 22¼ in. (124.4 x 56.5 cm.)
drawn in 1978
Provenance
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London.
Nelson Blitz Jr., New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 February 2008, lot 157.
Jan Krugier, acquired at the above sale.
Literature
M. Livingstone, R.B. Kitaj, London, 1985, p. 159, no. 224 (illustrated in color, pl. 78).
Exhibited
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., R.B. Kitaj: Pastels and Drawings, October-November 1980, p. 13, no. 3 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Cleveland Museum of Art, R.B. Kitaj, September 1981-January 1982, no. 63 (illustrated).
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Opening Exhibition, October 1993-April 1994.
London, Tate Gallery; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, R.B. Kitaj: A Retrospective, June 1994-May 1995, p. 97, no. 41 (illustrated in color).
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet, R.B. Kitaj: An American in Europe, January-March 1998, no. 57 (illustrated in color).

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