Germania (Engine Room) is one of Kitaj's first major paintings to address directly Jewish experience and the horrors of the Second World War.
R.B. Kitaj
Germania (The Engine Room)
Oil on Canvas
122.5 x 122.5 cms (48.14 x 48.14 ins)
1986
Signed, dated and inscribed on the overlap: 'Germania (Engine Room) 1983-86 Kitaj'
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Provenance:
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris (BL6003)
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1989
Exhibited:
R.B. Kitaj: a retrospective, Tate Gallery, London, June-September 1994, (no.75)
The exhibition later travelled to:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 1994- January 1995
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February- May 1995