Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

R.B. Kitaj NPG 6558

© Frank Auerbach / Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Frank Auerbach

The American painter Kitaj travelled extensively as a sailor before attending the Ruskin School of Drawing (1958-9) and the Royal College of Art (1959-61), where he was an important influence on his younger contemporaries such as David Hockney. Drawing on many sources of inspiration, his figure-based work is complex in its range of references and often autobiographical. In 1994 the artist's Tate retrospective received a harsh critical reception. This, combined with the sudden death of his second wife, painter Sandra Fisher, led him to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.