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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M14641
People
Ronald B. Kitaj, American (Chagrin Falls, Ohio 1932 - 2007 Los Angeles, California)
Title
The Republic of the Southern Cross
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1965
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/256123

Physical Descriptions

Medium
7 color screen print on off-white wove paper
Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
Image: 74.3 x 37.4 cm (29 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 78.7 x 57.6 cm (31 x 22 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. in pencil: Kitaj
  • inscription: l.r. in pencil, signed: Kitaj
  • inscription: l.l. below image, titled in silkscreen: The Republic of the Southern Cross
  • inscription: l.l next to title, editioned in pencil: 44/70
  • stamp: On verso, stamped in brown ink: "The William Hayes Fogg/Art Museum of/Harvard University" and numbered in pencil: 14,641

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Marlborough Galleries, New York], sold; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1966.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
44/70

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Copyright
© The Estate of R. B. Kitaj
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
M14641
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Martin Roman Deppner, R. B. Kitaj: Mahler Becomes Politics, Beisbol, exh. cat., Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany, 1990), p. 38, fig. 2, color ill.
  • Jane Kinsman, The Prints of R. B. Kitaj, Scolar Press and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Brookfield, VT, 1994), [reference]

Exhibition History

  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010

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