
Property from a Prestigious European Private collects ion
Head of E.O.W. II
Auction Closed
March 6, 07:55 PM GTNN
Estimate
3,000,000 - 4,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Frank Auerbach
b. 1931
Head of E.O.W. II
oil on board
35.5 by 29.4 cm. 14 by 11 ⅝ in.
Executed in 1964.
Marlborough Replica Handbags , London
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Stone, New York
Hiscox collects ion, London
Sotheby’s, London, 3 December 1998, lot 33 (consigned by the above)
Private collects ion, New York (acquired from the above)
Ivor Braka, London
Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner
London, Marlborough Replica Handbags , Frank Auerbach, February 1965, no. 10, n.p.
London, Hayward Gallery and Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery, Frank Auerbach, May – August 1978, no. 57, p. 87, illustrated
London, Pilar Ordovas and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Raw Truth: – Auerbach – Rembrandt, October 2013 – March 2014, p. 48, illustrated in colour (detail); pp. 67, 76, illustrated in colour
London, Ben Brown Replica Handbags s, Frank Auerbach/Tony Bevan, What is a Head?, December 2020 – April 2021, n.p., illustrated in colour
Robert Hughes, Frank Auerbach, London 1992, no. 115, p. 156, illustrated
William Feaver, Frank Auerbach, New York 2009, no. 168, pp. 63, 255, illustrated in colour
Catherine Lampert, Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting, London 2015, p. 115, illustrated in colour
William Feaver, Frank Auerbach: Revised and Expanded Edition, New York 2022, no. 168, pp. 65, 297, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., London, The Courtauld Gallery, Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads, 2024, p. 45, illustrated in colour