Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Plates bright and vivid.Pages in good condition. Ex display book with hole drilled in comer for securing. Dustcover is tattered. Pages and plates are otherwise good and it’s a usable copy of this sought after book. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> This is the most comprehensive publication to date and the only book in print on the work of Frank Auerbach a painter who in recent years has become one of the pre- eminent artists of our age widely admired for his vivid impulsive depictions of the world around him. His is ostensibly a narrow world a small area of North London where he has lived and worked for more than fifty years but within it he achieves images of marvelous poignancy and feel. “I’m hoping” Auerbach has said “to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.” Auerbach who was born in Berlin in 1931 and came to Britain when he was eight paints repeatedly people he knows well and places he is familiar with. His drawings and paintings are strikingly immediate; their impact has urgency; they relate in various ways as much to certain preferred Old Masters as to the contemporary artists with whom he tends to be associated notably Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. The book is definitive featuring as it does 200 color plates together with a separate reference section comprising around 1000 images-many of them not previously reproduced. (OS)