Frank Auerbach 1931-2024
Catherine, 1989
etching on paper
20 x 16.5 cm
Series: Part of Seven Portraits
signed (lower right) 'Auerbach 89', also inscribed (lower left) 'A/P' and titled (centre) 'Catherine
1994-17i
© The artist, courtesy of Frankie Rossi Art Projects, London
Photo: Bridgeman Images
The subject is Catherine Lampert, then Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery and one of Auerbach's regular weekly sitters. She co-curated with the artist his 2016 retrospective at Tate. This...
The subject is Catherine Lampert, then Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery and one of Auerbach's regular weekly sitters. She co-curated with the artist his 2016 retrospective at Tate. 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, then proofed and printed by Marc Balakjian at Studio Prints They were made to accompany the deluxe edition of Robert Hughes’ Frank Auerbach monograph in 1990.
Provenance
presented by the artist 1994Exhibitions
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
2012 Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris; Ben Uri Gallery
2019 Friends and Influences: Auerbach, Freud, Kitaj, Kossoff, Bomberg; Chagall, Soutine, Marevna; Ben Uri Gallery
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), p. 8, illus;
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.
