Frank Auerbach b. 1931
The subject is Geoffrey Parton, a Director of Marlborough Fine Art.
This print is part of a series of etchings of friends and family entitled Seven Portraits, drawn by the artist with a Japanese screwdriver bought from his local Woolworth's. The artist was already at work on separate portraits of two of the sitters, David Landau, and the artist's wife, Julia, and these two prints were the first he produced. The etchings were made to accompany the deluxe edition of Robert Hughes’ Frank Auerbach monograph in 1990 and were proofed and printed by Marc Balakjian at Studio Prints.
Provenance
presented by the artist 1994Wystawy
2007 London Senses and Experiences: Art in the Big City - Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Ron Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Euan Uglow, Ben Uri Gallery - The London Jewish Museum of Art
2010 Apocalypse: unveiling a lost masterpiece by Marc Chagall and 50 selected masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, Osborne Samuel
2012 Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris and School of London works from the Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Gallery
2018 Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, London (Department of Culture and Education)
2019 Friends and Influences: Auerbach, Freud, Kitaj, Kossoff, Bomberg; Chagall, Soutine, Marevna, Ben Uri Gallery
Literatura
Sarah MacDougall ed., Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2012) pp. 40-41;David Glasser, London Senses and Experiences (London, Ben Uri Gallery, 2007);
Walter Schwab and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 114.
