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

Head of E.O.W.

Details
Frank Auerbach (b. 1931)
Head of E.O.W.
oil on board
8 3/8 x 6in. (21.3 x 15.2cm.)
Painted in 1955
Exhibited
London, British Arts Council, Frank Auerbach, 1978, no. 11 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

Stella West, refered to in the works of Auerbach as E.O.W, met the young artist when he was seventeen and she was thirty-two. They soon became lovers and their affair rapidly became inseparable from their working relationship as artist and favourite model.

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