signed, dated and dedicated ‘For Clive/Frank Auerbach/1972’ (on the reverse), annotated with colour notes
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Drawing for Mornington Crescent Painting, 1972
Provenance:
Gifted by the artist to the sculptor, Clive Barker;
with New Art Centre, London;
with Achim Moeller, London
Exhibition History:
London, RCA, A Perfect Place to grow, 16 November 2012 – 3 January 2013;
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Drawing On, 21 March – 7 June 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016;
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, Shifting Ground, 11 November 2016 – 26 February 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018;
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 came to England in 1939 as a refugee from Nazi Germany, never seeing his family again. He decided to become an artist at the age of sixteen, and attended David Bomberg’s evening classes at the Borough Polytechnic, as well as studying at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art. In 1972 and 1973, Auerbach made several sketches and paintings of this view of the station at Mornington Crescent in North London. Although not officially a series of works, Mornington Crescent reappears throughout his work on many occasions, and he has captured it all times of day and in varying weather conditions. Like Walter Sickert before him, Auerbach’s studio is located nearby.
