Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach’s visceral, expressionistic portraits and landscapes suggest psychology and atmosphere with thick, nearly grotesque impasto. Auerbach’s painting style is defined by its immediacy and keen psychological undertones, which the artist achieves by completing his paintings in one sitting and repeatedly rendering the same sitters over the course of years. Auerbach has been the subject of solo shows at Hayward Gallery, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Museo Reina Sofía, Museum Folkwang, Tate Britain, the Yale Center for British Art, and London’s National Gallery. His work has sold for seven figures at auction and belongs in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Astrup Fearnley Museet, the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Portrait Gallery in London.