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People used to talk about the aleatory and luck and so on and chance in painting, well it's all chance if you go out and draw, you don't know anything's going to be... buses come across and people move and then you do more drawings and all sorts of sensations about pace and speed and the plastic coherence of the material that you're dealing with, and people walking across begin to appear in space and you just make these drawings and take them back to the studio and it gives you an impetus. Frank Auerbach in an interview with John Tusa, BBC Radio 3, October 21st 2001

Frank Auerbach (b. 1931)

Study for Morington Crescent

Details

Frank Auerbach (b. 1931)
Study for Morington Crescent
charcoal and oil on paper
9 7/8 x 12 3/8in. (25.1 x 31.4cm.)
Executed in 1970

Provenance

Marlborough Fine Arts Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1971.

Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1970.

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Study for Morington Crescent

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