Not exact matches
A British room contains four
works by Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011), ranging from an early painting (Self Portrait, 1949) to the remarkable
etching, Self - Portrait: Reflection (1996); two paintings by Francis Bacon (1909 - 92); the heavily impasto Head of Man (Self - Portrait)(1964) by Leon Kossoff (b1926), whose thick paint swirls offer his own form of distortion, concealment and ensuing excavation; and a delightful recent
graphite piece by Frank Auerbach (b1931), Self - Portrait II (2010).
It includes the following: a series of five
etchings realised with master printer Gregory Burnet in New York (Untitled, 2013), an ensemble of 16
works on paper (Mind Breath Drawings,
graphite, 2012) and finally a mixed group of 11 drawings and paintings on canvases (all untitled, in
graphite, acrylic and, except for three, ink, 2012).
These artists created
works on paper with the use of many different mediums to achieve their unique creative goal including,
graphite drawing,
etching, oil paint, collage, crayon, lithography, and watercolor.
A sequence is established here: a proof printed in black, overworked with paint and
graphite, followed by further
work on the plate, and a new stand - alone
etching that is not meant as part of an edition, but as a new moment of thought.