The first big French showing of East Germany’s most successful emigré artist

University College, Oxford, has commissioned R.B. Kitaj to paint a portrait of President Clinton (a former Rhodes Scholar) for the school’s Great Hall, but the honour hardly compensates for the American expatriate's treatment at Tate

The exhibition covers the span of his seventy year career, and includes a huge range of works and materials

Currently at the Munich Kunsthalle, the exhibition will next move to the Edinburgh National Gallery of Modern Art

The exhibition draws works from galleries and museums across the globe to display a chronological retrospective

The exhibition will travel through Europe, and in 1993 will be enlarged and shown at the Guggenheim to celebrate the artist's sixtieth birthday

Also scheduled is "Passage de l'Image", in which the different ways in which artists have adopted electronic media are charted