Catherine , 1989
20 x 16.5 cm (h x w)
etching, printed on Somerset white paper, artist's proof outside the published edition of 50

© Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

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 lithograph 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.

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Other works by Frank Auerbach (1931-)

Leon Kossoff , 1980
etching on paper
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Study for Mornington Crescent, Summer Morning II , 2004
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Mornington Crescent, Summer Morning II , 2004
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Julia Yardley Mills (J.Y.M.) , 1989
20 x 16.5 cm (h x w)
etching, printed on Somerset white paper, artist's proof outside the published edition of 50
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Michael , 1990
20 x 16.5 cm (h x w)
etching, printed on Somerset white paper, artist's proof outside the published edition of 50
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