Frank Auerbach (b. 1931)
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Frank Auerbach (b. 1931)

Self Portrait V

Details
Frank Auerbach (b. 1931)
Self Portrait V
signed and dated 'AUERBACH 2018' (lower left)
graphite and chalk on paper
30 ¼ x 22 5/8in. (76.8 x 57.5cm.)
Executed in 2018
Provenance
Courtesy of the artist and Marlborough Fine Art, London.
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.

Lot Essay

‘I find it very, very difficult to imagine being in a room by myself and looking at a wall and thinking, what art shall I do next? Because I want it to be something that stands up for itself and that works by its own rules and that even if you saw it upside-down or half-way across the world, it would still have a vitality – which is finally, I suppose, a sort of subtext, or inner vitality.’
– Frank Auerbach

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