Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001 - Softcover

Lampert, Catherine; Rosenthal, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810967375 ISBN 13: 9780810967373

Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, 1900

Synopsis

One of Britain's pre-eminent artists, Frank Auerbach has spent all of his adult life in London, and delights in the city's colours and forms. Both his oil paintings and his drawings reveal the intense observation and furious mark-making that he employs to arrive at the essence of his subjects. This book is published to accompany a major retrospective held at the Royal Academy of Arts to mark Auerbach's seventieth birthday. Norman Rosenthal, the Royal Academy's Exhibitions Secretary, considers Auerbach's paintings in the contexts of London and of Western art. Catherine Lampert, curator of the exhibition, contributes an essay on the painter and his sitters, and Isabel Carlisle, Exhibitions Curator, introduces each of the catalogue's four sections: Early Works (1954-70); People; Landscapes; and Drawings. All the works in the exhibition - some ninety paintings and ten drawings, borrowed mainly from private collections - are illustrated in full colour.

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About the Author

Catherine Lampert, outgoing director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and curator of the 1978 Hayward Gallery exhibition of Auerbach's work, has sat for the painter for the last 22 years. Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary to the Royal Academy of Arts, London, has contributed to many books and exhibition catalogues. Isabel Carlisle is an Exhibitions Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0810967375
• ISBN 13: 9780810967373
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1