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Details
FRANK AUERBACH (B. 1931)
Head of Leon Kossoff
dated three times ‘1957’ (upper left, upper right and centre right)
charcoal and chalk on paper
30 3/8 x 22 5/8in. (77 x 57.5cm.)
Executed in 1957
Provenance
Beaux Arts Gallery, London.
Lady Elizabeth Montagu Collection, UK (acquired from the above circa 1959), thence by descent.
Private Collection, London (acquired from the above in 2006).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013.
Literature
R. Hughes, Frank Auerbach London 1990, pp. 135 and 232, no. 100 (illustrated, p. 140).
Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001, exh. cat., London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2001, fig. 16 (installation view illustrated, p. 24).
W. Feaver, Frank Auerbach New York 2009, no. 52 (illustrated in colour, pp. 35 and 242).
B. Wright (ed.), Frank Auerbach London Building Sites 1952-62, exh. cat., London, The Courtauld Gallery, 2009-2010, p. 60.
C. Lampert, Frank Auerbach Speaking and Painting, London 2015, p. 63.
W. Feaver, Frank Auerbach New York 2022, no. 52 (illustrated in colour, pp. 37 and 284).
M. Hallett and C. Lampert (eds.), Frank Auerbach Drawings of People, London 2022, no. 12 (illustrated, unpaged).
Exhibited
London, The Courtauld Gallery, 2015-2018 (on long-term loan).
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Post Lot Text
This work has been requested for loan to The Courtauld Gallery in 2024.