Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Property from a Prestigious European Private Collection
Head of E.O.W. II
Auction Closed
March 6, 07:55 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 4,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Frank Auerbach
b. 1931
Head of E.O.W. II
oil on board
35.5 by 29.4 cm. 14 by 11 ⅝ in.
Executed in 1964.
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Stone, New York
Hiscox Collection, London
Sotheby’s, London, 3 December 1998, lot 33 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Ivor Braka, London
Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner
Robert Hughes, Frank Auerbach, London 1992, no. 115, p. 156, illustrated
William Feaver, Frank Auerbach, New York 2009, no. 168, pp. 63, 255, illustrated in colour
Catherine Lampert, Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting, London 2015, p. 115, illustrated in colour
William Feaver, Frank Auerbach: Revised and Expanded Edition, New York 2022, no. 168, pp. 65, 297, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., London, The Courtauld Gallery, Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads, 2024, p. 45, illustrated in colour
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Frank Auerbach, February 1965, no. 10, n.p.
London, Hayward Gallery and Edinburgh, Fruit Market Gallery, Frank Auerbach, May – August 1978, no. 57, p. 87, illustrated
London, Pilar Ordovas and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Raw Truth: – Auerbach – Rembrandt, October 2013 – March 2014, p. 48, illustrated in colour (detail); pp. 67, 76, illustrated in colour
London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Frank Auerbach/Tony Bevan, What is a Head?, December 2020 – April 2021, n.p., illustrated in colour