Portrait of J.Y.M. Seated

Artist Frank Auerbach (Berlin, Germany, 1931 - 2024)

Date1976

Mediumoil on board (2 superimposed boards)

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

DimensionsHeight: 50.8 cm, Width: 45.8 cm
Frame Size: 68 × 62.2 × 4.7cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1977 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions and with income from the Macdonald Bequest.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 18

Object numberABDAG000062

Keywords

About MeAlthough born in Berlin, Frank Auerbach has lived in Britain since he was eight years old. He painted Juliet Yardley Mills, known as JYM to her friends, every week over a period from 1963; first as a life model and then, over time, as a friend. Writing of such work, he said:
'I can't foresee the end of my pictures or my drawings. I keep on working and trying to do them in the hope of finding this result which to me is surprising, more surprising than finding an Easter egg as a child.
I take one picture at a time. …. doing drawing after drawing and then trying to get this bit of a raw, wild, untamed, un-predicted fact … down onto canvas.'

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Auerbach painted Juliet Yardley Mills every week over a period from 1963 ‘in the hope of finding this result which to me is surprising, more surprising than finding an Easter egg as a child’.

Exhibitions

Gallery 18 - People & Portraits