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Kitaj and Alex Katz is also reflected in Homer French’s work.

Following Mr. Kitaj’s example, and staying in touch with young Indian contemporary artists like Bhupen Khakhar and Gulammohammed Sheikh, he began applying a semiabstract, Pop-inspired painting style to current political subjects.

Kitaj, “Collages and Prints, 1964-75,” at L.A.

Kitaj was known for bright paintings that focused on the human figure.

Just in the past week, I read books by two friends, Edna O’Brien’s wise little biography of James Joyce and an engagingly eccentric autobiography, “Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter,” by one of my dearest dead friends, the great American artist R. B. Kitaj.