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Cap’n A.B Dick (B)
Two color lithograph on heavyweight textured pink paper
Paper 18 x 22.25 in. / 46 x 56.4 cm
Image 6.75 x 8.1 in. / 17.4 x 20.6 cm
Edition 20. Printed by Ernie Donagh, London, and published by Petersburg Press. Signed by the artist and numbered 19/20 lower left in pencil. There is another version of this print on Barcham Green Badger Mamba hand made paper, edition of 30, plus 12 APs.
Kitaj’s drawing is of a man in profile, wearing a sou’wester: a fisherman’s collapsible rain hat. The image is a wry portrait, ostensibly of Albert Blake Dick, inventor of the mimeograph and founder of the AB Dick office supply company, based in Chicago.
A close friend of fellow Petersburg Press collaborator David Hockney, Kitaj was known as an expressive, superlative draftsman. Art critic Robert Hughes famously wrote of Kitaj in TIME magazine that “he draws better than almost anyone else alive.”
A copy of this lithograph is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Good condition with a mark on lower left of sheet as documented.
