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    7 February 2008

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    • Frank Auerbach (b. 1931)
    Lot 323

    Frank Auerbach (b. 1931)

    Head of Paula Eyles

    Price realised

    GBP 423,700

    Estimate

    GBP 200,000 - GBP 300,000

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    Frank Auerbach (b. 1931)
    Head of Paula Eyles
    oil on board
    12¼ x 12 1/8in. (31.2 x 31cm.)
    Painted in 1972

    Provenance

    Marlborough Fine Art, London.

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    Exhibited

    London, Marlborough Fine Art, Frank Auerbach, April-May 1974, no. 16.
    Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, European Painting in the Seventies: New Work by Sixteen Artists, September-November 1975, no. 17. This exhibition later travelled to St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum, March-May 1976 and Madison, Elvehjem Art Center, June-August 1976.


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    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.
    VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium


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