FRANK AUERBACH

Frank Auerbach - Revised and Expanded Edition Monograph

Rizzoli Expanded Edition

Details

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Release Date: 6 September 2022
• Language: English
• Hardcover: 408 pages
• ISBN-10: 0847872106
• ISBN-13: 978-0847872107
• Dimensions: 24.74 × 3.68 × 28.93 cm
• Reproductions: 200 full-page colour plates + illustrated catalogue of ~1,000 works

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ABOUT THIS EDITION

This 2022 expanded Rizzoli edition stands as the most comprehensive monograph ever produced on Frank Auerbach — one of the most influential and fiercely original British painters of the last century.

“I’m hoping to make a new thing for the world
that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.”

Spanning more than seventy years of work, this monumental volume charts Auerbach’s evolution from his earliest post-war drawings to the richly textured, emotionally charged portraits and London landscapes for which he is celebrated. Working almost entirely within a small radius of north London — his home, studio and lifelong creative world — Auerbach has produced a body of work of staggering intensity and depth.

Widely compared to Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, Auerbach’s approach remains unmistakably his own: dense layers of paint, impulsive strokes, and an unparalleled physicality that gives each image the feeling of being wrestled into existence. This expanded edition includes more than 1,200 works, with over 250 new paintings and drawings produced since the previous volume.

Art historian William Feaver — Auerbach’s long-time friend, sitter, and one of the most perceptive writers on contemporary British art — provides deeply engaging commentary, interviews, studio insights and historical context. The result is a vivid portrait of an artist who has spent a lifetime capturing the world immediately around him with unmatched commitment and force.

CONTENTS INCLUDE

• 200 large-scale colour plates reproduced with superb clarity
• An illustrated catalogue of around 1,000 works
• Extensive interviews and conversations with the artist
• Studio photography and rare archival material
• A complete overview of Auerbach’s career from the 1950s–2020s

This edition is an essential reference for scholars, collectors, galleries and anyone interested in modern British art.

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