RB Kitaj, from Six Etching of Heads (Harley 10)

细节

Frank Auerbach (b. 1931)
RB Kitaj, from Six Etching of Heads (Harley 10)
etching in grey and black, 1980, on Arches wove paper, signed, dated and titled in pencil, inscribed in pencil Proof. To Ron with love Frank, aside from the edition of fifty (there were also ten artist's proofs), with the blindstamp of Palm Tree Studios, London, with wide margins, generally in very good condition; together with an unrecorded and possibly unique impression from the black plate only, on wove paper, signed and dated in pencil, inscribed in pencil To Kitaj with love from Frank, with wide margins, generally in very good condition, framed together
Plate 150 x 135 mm., Sheet 400 x 342 mm. (and similar) (2)

来源

Acquired directly from the artist.

注意事项

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拍品专文

The present lot comprises two states of this print, one of which is possibly a previously unknown proof of the single black plate. The other is formed by printing both plates together, in black and grey respectively. They are two separate portraits, showing slightly differing angles of the artist's head that, once printed together, convey movement.

Auerbach is known for using rather unconventional tools and materials in his intaglio printing (see lot 301), preferring to use the simplest and most available equipment. In creating these prints he drew on the etching ground with a dart he had bought from Woolworths. He then used two different acids to etch each plate independently, producing the effect of spacial density.