The American artist,inspired by Van Gogh and British pop art, creates a double-portrait of his friend David Hockney with Peter Schlesinger RB Kitaj was known for paintings dense with intellectual references: Jewish identity, or the Holocaust and the fragmented world that followed were his favoured subjects. Yet,as he wrote in 1988: “When I’m sick of being difficult, I score a pencil and draw a friend.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk