© 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.