- Artist
- Frank Auerbach born 1931
- Medium
- Chalk and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 251 × 311 mm
frame: 435 × 482 × 34 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1971
- Reference
- T01271
Catalogue entry
Frank Auerbach b. 1931
T01271–T01275 Working Drawings for ‘Primrose Hill’ 1968
None inscribed.
Purchased from the artist through Marlborough Fine Art (Grant-in-Aid) 1971.
Exh: Marlborough Fine Art, January 1971 (no numbers).
T01271 Coloured chalks and black pencil on cartridge paper, 9¿ x 12¼ (25 x 31.1).
The artist said (15 March 1971) that he thought he had drawn these sketches towards the end of the period when he was painting ‘Primrose Hill’, T01270. He wrote (16 March 1971) that he selected them as the best of the 50 working drawings. He could not assign a chronological order to them.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1970–1972, London 1972.
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