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Lot 25AR

FRANK AUERBACH
(B. 1931)
J.Y.M. Seated
1981

12 October 2023, 16:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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FRANK AUERBACH (B. 1931)

J.Y.M. Seated
1981

charcoal and chalk on paper

76.8 by 58.4 cm.
30 1/4 by 23 in.

This work was executed in 1981.


Footnotes

Provenance
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (33684.6)
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited
New York, Marlborough Gallery Inc., Frank Auerbach Recent Paintings and Drawings, 1982, p. 35, no. 27, illustrated in colour
London, Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd., Frank Auerbach Recent Work, 1983, n.p., no. 32


Literature
William Fever, Frank Auerbach, New York 2009, p. 289, no. 452, illustrated in colour
William Fever, Frank Auerbach, New York 2022, p. 331, no. 452, illustrated in colour



"[J.Y.M.] was brought into the world to be a model, she came and sat, and it was not quite like anything else. It wasn't like painting Stella or painting Julia because it was just that... She took poses that were natural to her, and then I sometimes suggested things and one would go on. It became like a central spine of what one was doing."
Frank Auerbach

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