Frank AuerbachWorking Drawing for 'Primrose Hill' 1968

Frank Auerbach b. 1931

T01271–T01275 Working Drawing 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).

T01272 Black pencil on cartridge paper, 10½ x 12½ (26.7 x 31.8).

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.