Contemporary Art Evening Auction

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Lot 32
  • 32

Frank Auerbach

Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Frank Auerbach
  • Head of David Landau
  • oil on canvas
  • 71.7 by 67.4cm.
  • 28 1/4 by 26 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1998-99.

Provenance

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Frissiras Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001, 2001, p. 79, no. 42, illustrated in colour

Catalogue Note

"He [Auerbach] has a physicality with his painting. . . He goes into a state of creative orgasm with all the signs of excit.mes nt, groans and screams.  And he talks to himself all the t.mes , saying 'rubbish, it's not good enough, complete rubbish'.  But you realise that at some point in his act of creation he is suddenly being a little more content.  He suddenly goes into a state of meditation and touches the canvas with great delicacy, and you think that maybe he has reached a stage where he is satisfied."  David Landau quoted in: John O'Mahony, 'Frank Auerbach: Surfaces and Depths' in, The Guardian, 15 September 2001