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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
FRANK AUERBACH Self-Portrait * The Brazen Serpent.
Pencil on cream wove paper, double-sided, 1954. 215x275 mm; 8 1/2x10 7/8 inches. Signed and dated in ball-point pen and blue ink, upper right recto.
Gift from the artist to David Sylvester, London; sold Sotheby's, London, "David Sylvester: The Private Collection," sale LO2959, lot 33; Leslie J. Sacks, Los Angeles, from the former sale; by descent to the Estate of Leslie J. Sacks, Los Angeles, 2013.
The Brazen Serpent is a study of Peter Paul Rubens' same-titled oil painting; the Self-Portrait studies are after Rembrandt.
