Timothy Taylor

Frank Auerbach Landscapes and Portraits 11 May–23 June 2018

515 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA T +1 212 256 1669 [email protected] timothytaylor.com Frank Auerbach Timothy Taylor New York, is honored to present unique and compelling experience for the viewer. Landscapes and Portraits an exhibition of works by the British artist Frank 11 May–23 June 2018 Auerbach. The subject of a major retrospective at Auerbach paints in the same studio he has occupied the Tate Britain in 2015-16, Auerbach has established since 1954, reputedly working all day, seven days a himself as one of the pre-eminent contemporary week, revisiting the inventory of subject matter he painters through an oeuvre that spans more than has accumulated from his regular models and his fifty years. This exhibition at Timothy Taylor is the quotidian local life. Sitting for the artist was described first show devoted to Auerbach in New York since by William Feaver as “rather like being at the dentist”; 2006. This exhibition brings together examples of an arduous and lengthy process that produces a work portraits of some of Auerbach’s favorite sitters; his of the most refined quality. wife, Julia, writer and art critic William Feaver, and Juliet Yardley Mills (J.Y.M) – the artist’s principal The British academic and art historian Simon Schama model since 1963, and the subject of over seventy describes Auerbach’s studio like “some sort of place works. In compliment to these portraits are a number where rationing has just been abolished. It’s the of paintings of North London landscapes - Camden, ultimate sweetshop. It’s full of touchy-feely paint... It’s Primrose Hill and Mornington Crescent – areas local Auerbach who’s really building things, layering it on to the artist’s home and studio, which have also served in a sort of party of impasto.” as reoccurring subjects over the course of his career. Notes to Editors Drawing from his daily life, and using his work as a tool to deal with the experience of existence, Frank Auerbach was born in Berlin, Germany in Auerbach has stated that painting is “something 1931 and at the age of seven immigrated to England that happens to a man working in a room, alone with to avoid Nazi persecution. He studied at the Royal his actions, his ideas, and perhaps his model. He is College of Art from 1952 to 1955 and his first solo affected by his circumstances and by the standards exhibition took place at the Beaux Arts Gallery in and events of his time, but he seems to me to be the London in 1956. In 1986, Auerbach represented Britain sole coherent unit.” at the Venice Biennale, where he received the Golden Lion award for the presentation. Subsequent solo Whilst Auerbach’s paintings might appear sudden and exhibitions have taken place at the Royal Academy, the reactive, they are works of tremendous concentration National Gallery, the Rijksmuseum and most recently and physical application that capture the very soul of in 2015-16 the Tate held a third retrospective to the subject. After many months and hours of sittings, celebrate the artist’s 84th birthday, brought together where applied paint is typically scraped back and then by one of his sitters, the curator Catherine Lampert. reapplied, the final image will often then emerge Auerbach currently resides in North London, working within a matter of hours. In this moment, Auerbach from the same studio for the past fifty years. blends figuration with raw textures, taking the physical properties of paint to a visceral extreme. It For press information or images please contact: is the surface depth and the subtle palette existing on Sarah Goulet: [email protected] | +1 303 918 0393 the very edge of order, that denies the sense of space in these extraordinary paintings and creates such a Frank Auerbach Koko, Mornington Crescent, summer morning, 2006

Oil on canvas 50 × 50 in 127 × 127 cm T0011377

Frank Auerbach Home IV, 2013

Oil on Board 17 3/8 × 19 1/8 in 44.1 × 48.3 cm T0011407 Frank Auerbach Camden Palace - Spring Morning II, 2000

Oil on board 16 1/8 × 18 1/8 in 41 × 46 cm T0011375

Frank Auerbach The House, 2015

Oil on board 20 × 20 in 50.8 × 50.8 cm T0011392 Frank Auerbach The Pillar Box, 2011

Oil on board 22 1/8 × 22 1/8 in. 56 × 56 cm T0011374 Frank Auerbach Primrose Hill, 1978

Oil on canvas 36 × 48 in. 91.5 × 122 cm T0011378

Frank Auerbach Reclining Head of Julia, 2003-4

Acrylic on board 16 1/8 × 24 1/8 in 40.9 × 61.3 cm T0011383 Frank Auerbach Head of JYM, 1984-5

Oil on canvas 26 × 24 in. 66 × 61 cm T006380

Frank Auerbach Reclining Head of Julia, 2006

Acrylic on board 18 1/8 × 18 1/8 in 46 × 46 cm T0011371 Frank Auerbach Head of JYM III, 1981

Oil on board 20 × 22 in 50.8 × 55.9 cm T0011376

Frank Auerbach J.Y.M Seated in the Studio III, 1988

Oil on canvas 29 3/4 × 16 in 75.5 × 40.5 cm T0011379 Frank Auerbach Study of William Feaver, 2008

Oil on board 11 7/8 × 9 3/4 in 30.2 × 24.8 cm T0011380 Frank Auerbach Head of Julia III, 1999

Acrylic on board 11 7/8 × 11 7/8 in 30 × 30 cm T0011401

Biography 1931 Born in Berlin, Germany 1939 Arrived in England 1948-52 Studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London, UK 1952-55 Studied at the Royal College of Art, London, UK

Lives and works in London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2015-16 Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Tate Britain, London, UK 2014 Paintings and Drawings from the Estate of Lucian Freud, Manchester Art Gallery, UK; Tate Britain, London, UK 2013-14 Raw Truth: Auerbach – Rembrandt, Ordovas, London, UK; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2013 Portraits, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong 2012-13 Landscapes on Paper, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 2012 Portraits on Paper, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 2009 Recent Pictures, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK London Building Sites, The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK 2007-08 Etchings and Drypoints 1954-2006, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK; Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK 2006 Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA Auerbach and Freud at the V&A: New Paintings, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK 2004 Some Drawings and three new Paintings, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK 2002 Pinturas y Dibujos, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain 2001 Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 1998 Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA 1996 Paintings and Drawings, Rex Irwin, Woollahra, Australia 1995 Frank Auerbach and the National Gallery, Working after the Masters National Gallery, London, UK 1990-91 To the Studio and other Works, St Louis Art Museum; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven 1989 Recent Work, Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam 2015 1986 British Pavilion XLII Venice Biennale 1983 Recent Work, Marlborough Fine Art, London 1979 Bernard Jacobson, New York 1969 Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York 1956 Beaux Arts Gallery, London Selected Public and Private Collections Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK Ben Uri Gallery, London, UK British Council, London, UK British Museum, London, UK Contemporary Art Society, London, UK Courtauld Gallery, London, UK Government Art Collection, London, UK National Gallery, London, UK National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Royal College of Art, London, UK Tate, London, UK Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK Manchester City Gallery, Manchester, UK Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, USA Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kuns, Oslo, Norway Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris, France Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australia Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA St. Louis Art Museum, St Louis, USA Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel