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Frank Auerbach 1931-2024

Julia, 1989

etching, printed on Somerset white paper

19.5 x 16.5 cm

signed and dated (lower right) 'Auerbach 89', also inscribed (lower left) 'A/P' and titled (centre) 'Julia'

1994-17v

Photo: Bridgeman Images

This is a profile portrait of the artist's wife, Julia Wolstenholme, whom Auerbach met at the Royal College of Art in London. This and the portrait of David Landau were...

Provenance

presented by the artist 1994

Exhibitions

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

2019 Migrations: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, Gloucester Museum

Literature

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.

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