Confessions of an old Jewish painter
Subtitle: autobiography
By: R.B. Kitaj ; preface by David Hockney ; edited and with an epilogue by Eckhart J. Gillen
Contributors: Hockney, David, writer of preface; Gillen, Eckhart, 1947- editor
Edition: Original first edition.
Publisher: Schirmer Mosel
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Munich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9783829608138
Subjects: Painters; Biography; Jewish painters; Artists; Jewish artists
Description: After many years of rumours, R. B. Kitaj's Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter is finally available in its first publication ever. A jewel among artist's autobiographies, it relates his passionate life as a seafarer and book trader, his splendid rise and bitter fall in the British art scene, and his faible for harlots.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.