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Frank Auerbach is an artist whose work is almost completely diminished when it's reproduced in books or magazines (or websites for that matter). The images are as far removed from Auerbach's actual work as a photograph of someone is from the real person. It's all to do with the complexity of the surfaces that Aurbach builds up on each canvas, and short of having 3-D glasses this is all lost in the flatness of a page. Auerbach paints small to medium sized paintings of rather ordinary subjects, portraits of people, views of his studio and landscapes of Camden Town and Primrose Hill, the areas near his home. Each painting is the result of a painstaking process, with Auerbach painting and re-painting the canvas again and again. The paint on the canvas not only contains the image of the subject matter but also a trace of the time Auerbach has spent...

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