Bidspirit auction | Frank Auerbach (1931-2024) – ”Jake”,

Frank Auerbach (1931-2024) – ”Jake”, Portrait of the Artist 's Son – Signed Etching - Jake [portrait of the artist 's son]. Etching, signed by Auerbach. Captioned and dated 1990 (pencil). Numbered 45/50. 14.8X17.5 cm. Frame: 35.5X40 cm. Good condition. Unexamined out of frame. Frank Helmuth Auerbach (1931-2024), German-born British painter of Jewish descent. In 1939, he was sent to England as part of the Kindertransport, and in 1947 became a British citizen. Auerbach was among the leading painters associated with the ”School of London”, alongside David Hockney, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Leon Kossoff and others. He held numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and museums, and his distinctive painterly style earned him international recognition. The German writer W. G. Sebald drew inspiration from Auerbach in creating the character of the painter Max Aurach in his book ”The Emigrants”, published in 1992. Auerbach 's son, Jake (b. 1958), portrayed in the present work, is a documentary filmmaker. Many of his films explore artists and the art world, among them ”Frank by Jake” (2015), devoted to his father.