A RASH ACT. 1975. SIGNED ARTIST’S PROOF.

New York/London: Petersburg Press, 1975
52 x 73cm. Original lithograph printed in colours on green wookey hole hand-made woven paper. Signed and numbered by the artist. A characteristically ‘exacting’ print-multiple by the artist. The erotic, although surprisingly not immediately apparent, pornographic image, of Kitaj’s favourite model lounging in front of the artist while the latter is receiving oral pleasure from another woman, may indeed be the ‘rash act’ of the title. Kitaj wrote often of his affairs – this work has always suggested to us a guilty conscience being expunged with great relief. The quality of the printing is worth mentioning – even close up this lithograph looks like a pastel drawing. This is an artist’s proof numbered from XII-XIV and signed by Kitaj. Fine estate. Ref: Prints of R.B. Kitaj, 1994. pg. 155.