Frank Auerbach Self-portraits in London until 14 July

‘I didn’t find actual formal components of my head all that interesting when I was younger, smoother and less frazzled. Now that I’ve got bags under my eyes, things are sagging and so on, there’s more material to work with.’ - Frank Auerbach

There’s a unique show of 20 self-portraits by Frank Auerbach currently on at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert gallery in St.James’ London until 14 July.

If you like scratches, scribbles, dry brush marks, colour, erasing and layered gestural brushstrokes then this is for you. For me this is no disappointment and as ever seeing it in reality exceeds anything in a photograph.

Manifestations of life. “Sensations…congealed…cohered…out of the battle into being…”

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