Frank Auerbach's world is London, his home since 1947. The German-born figurative painter (b.1931) depicts the city and its inhabitants in thick, energetic, brilliantly colored brush strokes. His work, which includes landscapes and portraits that recall the Old Masters, has earned him a place among contemporaries such as Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, and R.B. Kitaj.This book is published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. With essays on the works, their place in Western art, and on ...
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Frank Auerbach's world is London, his home since 1947. The German-born figurative painter (b.1931) depicts the city and its inhabitants in thick, energetic, brilliantly colored brush strokes. His work, which includes landscapes and portraits that recall the Old Masters, has earned him a place among contemporaries such as Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, and R.B. Kitaj.This book is published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. With essays on the works, their place in Western art, and on the painter and his sitters, it brings Auerbach's art to a wider audience.
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Fine. 4to. HEAVY. 156pp, bibliography, chronology, endnotes, num bw & col ills. Near new. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2001 featuring paintings and drawings by one of Britain's pre-eminent postwar painters.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Exhibition Catalogue. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Soft cover in separate, illustrated cardstock dust jacket, as issued., no flaws or wear, clean, no writing or markings, tight, sewn binding.; 156pp., 39 figures in text, 113 items in exhibition illustrated in catalogue, mostly color, many full-page., contains 2 essays on auerbach, chronology, reference material.; multi-page gallery guide to the exhibition, laid-in.
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