I've just learned that my favourite living (as I thought) painter, R.B. Kitaj, died on the 20th of last month. Of course an artist lives on as long as his or her work is shown and appreciated. Soon, perhaps, there will be books, prints and posters making his work available to a wider public. Why not already in this country? A hangover from the "Tate Wars"? In the meantime illustrations of his work can be found on the internet.
(Self-portrait, with first wife, www.nyss.org/fisher/images/big/soyer.jpg)