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Frank Auerbach(1931-2024)Nude Seated on a Folding Chair, from Six Drypoints of the Nude, circa 1954
7 – 16 April 2025, 12:00 BST
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Frank Auerbach (1931-2024)
Nude Seated on a Folding Chair, from Six Drypoints of the Nude, circa 1954
signed and dedicated 'to Phil with best wishes Frank' in pencil
drypoint
20 x 16.2cm (7 7/8 x 6 3/8in).
A proof impression of the second state printed by the artist. There were only proofs which were mainly reserved for friends of the artist.
signed and dedicated 'to Phil with best wishes Frank' in pencil
drypoint
20 x 16.2cm (7 7/8 x 6 3/8in).
A proof impression of the second state printed by the artist. There were only proofs which were mainly reserved for friends of the artist.
Footnotes
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to his friend and fellow artist Philip Holmes.
Thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
Craig Hartley, Frank Auerbach: Etchings and Drypoints 1954-2006, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in association with Marlborough Graphics, London, 2007, no. 5.
Nude Seated on a Folding Chair is from a series of six early works executed whilst the artist was still a student. Preparatory sketches and reworking formed a large part of Auerbach's creative process and there is as much a sense of immediacy in the etched forms as in his drawings, made with items which were close to hand. As the artist explained:
These were all based on life drawings done at the Royal College of Art or at the Borough Polytechnic. I chose six drawings which were still fairly fresh in my mind, out of several hundred (the vast majority of these drawings I later destroyed).
The drypoints were scratched on to pieces of alloy six inches square, bought from Romanys of Camden High Street for 6d. each. They were done with a nail, set into a pen holder with sealing wax, and printed by rubbing the back of a spoon over the back of the dampened paper. It was all very laborious; there was a lot of burnishing. There was never a formal edition. I think there may be a dozen complete sets, they belong mostly to friends, often painters.
Frank Auerbach, quoted in Michael Podro, Frank Auerbach: The Complete Etchings 1954-1990, London, Marlborough Graphics, 1990.
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