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Get to know… R. B. Kitaj's 'The Wedding.' R. B. Kitaj was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1932. From the 1950s he spent much of his life in England, studying at the Ruskin School, Oxford and the Royal College of Art, London. It was there he met David Hockney, who became a close friend.
This painting depicts his 1983 wedding to the American artist Sandra Fisher which took place in the Bevis Marks Synagogue in the City of London. The work brings together several crucial themes in Kitaj’s art and thought, in particular his increasing awareness of his identity as a Jew.
The painting shows various moments of the ceremony. The artist is on the right, wearing the traditional shawl of Jewish bridegrooms. On the left, wearing a top hat, is the Rabbi Abraham Levy. Alongside the artist’s three children, the scene also features fellow artists Bacon Freud, Frank Auerbach and David Hockney (who was the best man). They were members of the so-called ‘School of London’, a term invented by Kitaj to describe this group of artists linked by friendship, their response to great masters, their emphasis on drawing and their concern with the human subject. ‘I worked on the painting for years and never learned how to finish it,' Kitaj says. 'Even though painter friends, including most of those in the picture, gave me good advice about it which I took up and changed things all the time. In the end, instead of finishing it, I finished with it and gave it away to a deserving old friend.’ 🎨 R. B. Kitaj, The Wedding, 1989-93

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