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Germania (The Engine Room) by R.B. Kitaj

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