annotated with colour notes; also signed on the reverse and further signed on an image of the work attached to the backboard
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Building Site Study, not dated
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist by the previous owner;
thence by descent
Exhibition History:
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, A Personal Passion, 25 April – 5 July 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
London, Business Design Centre, London Art Fair Museum Partner, Ten Years – A Century of Art, 18 – 22 January 2017;
Woking, The Lightbox, Steven Ingman: Young Contemporary Talent, 2 – 31 December 2017;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, Metropolis, 23 July 2018 – 28 July 2020;
London, Dellasposa Gallery, Tales from the Colony Rooms: Art and Bohemia, 15 September – 13 December 2020
Frank Auerbach has lived in London, working from his Camden Town studio, for over sixty years, and along with his portraits of a select circle of sitters, London has been his enduring subject. During the 1950s, he produced a series of paintings based on building sites, for which this drawing is a study – sketches produced on site would provide the basis for his work with paint in the studio. He has described his approach to painting, saying, “What I wanted to do was to record the life that seemed to me to be passionate and exciting and disappearing all the time.”
