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Oil on canvas

Signed KITAJ middle left; and signed, titled and dated on the reverse

132.00cm wide    91.70cm high    (51.97 inches wide  36.10 inches high)

Marlborough Fine Art, London
Ivor Braka, London
Private Collection, Europe

Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, R B Kitaj, 1970, (cat. no. 105, detail illustrated)
Marco Livingstone, Kitaj, 1985 (no.12, plate 26)
Richard Wollheim, ‘Kitaj: Recollections and Reflections’ in (ed. Richard Morphet), R.B.Kitaj: A Retrospective, Tate Gallery, 1994 (illustrated p.40, misdated 1960 and described as whereabouts unknown)

A Tribute to Sir Colin St John Wilson, James Hyman Gallery, 2007
Kitaj Memorial Gallery, Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, 2008

Considered by Kitaj to be one of his only Pop Art paintings, The Bells of Hell dates from a key moment in the artist’s career and in the formation of British Pop Art.