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FRANK AUERBACH Head of G. B.
Color screenprint on cream wove paper, 1966. 800x576 mm; 31 1/2x22 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed and 21/70 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Marlborough Graphics, London. From Heads and Figures. A very good, richly-inked impression.
Gerda Boehm first sat for Auerbach (born 1931) in 1961 and continued sitting at regular intervals until 1982. An older cousin, she was the only member of his family that he saw after leaving Berlin before World War II and his portraits of her are among the most emotionally charged of his career.
