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Frank Auerbach

May 2024

  • Abstract painting of a street in London

    Frank Auerbach painting seized from money launderer to be sold by NCA

    Albert Street, 2009, estimated to be worth several million pounds, was recovered from Lenn Mayhew-Lewis

April 2024

  • Jonathan Jones

    Marlborough Gallery to call it quits after nearly 80 years in a fast-evolving art scene

    Jonathan Jones
    Stately gallery founded in 1946 in the age of high-minded modernism finally had to succumb to a new reality

February 2024

  • The only remaining family Auerbach had … Head of Gerda Boehm, 1961.

    Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads review: war-scarred faces on paper that has taken a pounding

    These portraits from the dark postwar years have been so reworked that the paper is often gouged through. The results feel as war-damaged as his family – yet still thrillingly alive

January 2024

  • Left to right: Head of Leon Kossoff, 1956-57, Head of Helen Gillespie II, 1962 and Head of EOW, 1960 by Frank Auerbach.

    Frank Auerbach’s early charcoal portraits look deep into human life – in pictures

    A collection of the artist’s drawings have been brought together for the first time for a new exhibition

April 2023

  • Bridget Riley pictured in 2019

    The Guardian view on older artists: bridging history and personal life

    Editorial: Their new works may be their last, but the contribution of these maestros are still making is invaluable to our world view
  • ‘My vision of painting was of an explosion’ … Auerbach in his studio in the 1970s.

    ‘I’m doing what may be my last paintings’: Frank Auerbach on his new self-portraits and turning 92

    He has painted the same people over and over, sometimes for 40 years, dabbing, rubbing out, then starting again. Although the great artist now has to hold onto his easel to work, he still hopes to die with a brush in his hand
  • A 21st-century Rembrandt … detail from Frank Auerbach self-portrait.

    Frank Auerbach: Twenty Self-Portraits review – savage, compassionate and pineapple-like

    Now in his 90s, the great German-British painter is finally putting his own face up for scrutiny – with wondrously strange results

September 2022

  • Two self-portraits by Frank Auerbach painted during the pandemic.

    Frank Auerbach: how artist drew himself for Covid ‘plague years’ drawings

    The renowned British artist found inspiration in his own features after the pandemic left him without sitters

April 2022

  • Frank Auerbach, Head of E.O.W. I, Oil paint on wood, 1960. Courtesy of Tate, London.

    Frank Auerbach: Unseen review – art that restores a sense of what it is to be human

    Holocaust orphan Auerbach’s stunning paintings – tangled masses with hints of horror – have been brought out of the Tate’s vaults to resonate poignantly in a time of war

March 2022

  • Gillian Ayres

    Creation from destruction: why postwar British art has never been more relevant

    Tumult, anxiety and an openness to reconstructing society loom large at a new show, featuring works by Frank Auerbach and Gillian Ayres

September 2019

  • Painting of Ria almost finished: Lucian Freud photographed in his studio with model Ria Kirby by his assistant, David Dawson, 2007

    ‘I was Lucian Freud’s spare pair of eyes’

    William Feaver, a friend of Lucian Freud’s for 30 years, recalls their time together, and Freud’s journey from obscurity to global fame

May 2018

  • Painters' Lunch At Wheelers<br>Group portrait of artist painters (left to right) Timothy Behrens, Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews (1928 - 1995), having lunch at Wheelers Restaurant in Soho, London, 1963. (photo by John Deakin Archive/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters by Martin Gayford – review

    A superb biography of the postwar painters whose fresh techniques and ideas energised art captures their resolve – and the bond between them

February 2018

  • Unguarded humanity … Melanie and Me Swimming 1978-79 by Michael Andrews from All Too Human: Bacon Freud and a Century of Painting Life.

    All Too Human review – brutal, tender and bizarre, this is life, not art

  • Annie Freud in Annie, by Lucian Freud

    'He used to lash himself with his brush when he was angry': artists' models reveal all

January 2018

  • Detail from Emil Nolde’s Exotic Figures II, 1911.

    Unmissable culture of 2018
    From Picasso at his mightiest to gods of American cool: the hottest art shows of 2018

    Picasso reveals his most erotic year, Andreas Gursky predicts the post-truth era, O’Keeffe and Hopper hit Oxford – and the only way is Sussex for William Blake in our exhibitions preview

June 2017

  • Gouache, 1973, Roger Hilton.

    Superstars of St Ives – in pictures

    Twisted trees, beer bottle still lifes, brazen blocks of colour … work by everyone from Francis Bacon to Patrick Heron and Lucian Freud is going under the hammer at Sotheby’s – capturing a time when a Cornish fishing village regularly rivalled London as an art superpower

April 2017

  • A detail of the painting Head, circa 1920s, by Elisabeth Tomalin.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Refugees, aristocrats and modern British painters – the week in art

    Ben Uri Gallery’s exhibition of German artist émigrés opens this week, while the Scottish National Gallery shows off two masterpieces of nature’s power – all in your weekly dispatch

November 2016

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Air Power is removed from a plinth by Sotheby’s staff after its sale.

    David Bowie's art fetches £24m in first round of sale

    Total includes Jean-Michel Basquiat painting sold for more than £7m on packed night at Sotheby’s

October 2016

  • Keith Cunningham, Head No. 6, c1954-1960.

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Bacon, Auerbach ... Keith Cunningham? Meet the nearly man of British painting

    Praised by Frank Auerbach, Cunningham flared into life in the 1950s then sank from view. A new exhibition celebrates him, but is he really a lost genius?

July 2016

  • David Bowie

    David Bowie's private art collection to be unveiled for the first time

    Works the late singer quietly collected over the years to go on display before being auctioned at Sotheby’s
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