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| Frank Auerbach Head of Gerda Boehm, 1965 Oil on board £300,000-500,000 |
Auerbach
“My God, yeah! I want to sound like that looks” – David Bowie on Frank Auerbach’s work, quoted in the New York Times, 1998.
Bowie loved the rich, sculptural effects of Auerbach’s paintings (“I find his kind of basrelief way of painting extraordinary. Sometimes I’m not really sure if I’m dealing with sculpture or painting”), and clearly felt a deep affinity with the artist, whose work could provoke in him a whole gamut of reactions: “It will give spiritual weight to my angst. Some mornings I’ll look at it and go, “Oh, God, yeah! I know!’’ But that same painting, on a different day, can produce in me an incredible feeling of the triumph of trying to express myself as an artist.” [Ibid]
Head of Gerda Boehm, a portrait of the artist’s cousin, was last exhibited at the Royal Academy, when Bowie lent the work to Auerbach’s much heralded retrospective in 2001.
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Photograph from Sotheby's Hong Kong.