Frank auerbach paintings

Frank Auerbach is a British painter known for his intense works and demanding process. Beyond his significant status in the history of modern art, he remains an essential contemporary artist.

Now in his 90s, the great German-British painter is finally putting his own face up for scrutiny – with wondrously strange results

“Todas mis pinturas son resultado de centenares de transmutaciones“.

This sparse, tough retrospective forces us to concentrate on the wild ferocity of Auerbach’s art, says Alastair Sooke

As a major exhibition of his work opens at Tate Modern, artist Frank Auerbach tells Hannah Rothschild about solitude, routine and the art of "forgetting oneself"

Oils on skin in the style of Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach. I really like this drawing because its showing the intensity of how the artist has smudged, compressed, softened and scratched with the charcoal to re creative depth portrait.

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From J. Paul Getty Museum, Frank Auerbach, Self-Portrait, 1958 (1958), Charcoal and paper collage, 77.2 × 56.5 cm