You have to be ready to receive a painting by Frank Auerbach. The receiving takes time — takes place over time. You look at one of his portraits and it’s not immediately clear where the eyes ...

Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale achieved a total of £11,312,620/ $14,672,468/ €13,428,080, with sell-through rates of 96% by lot and 98% by value. Christie’s announced its March ...

Frank Auerbach, the German-British artist known for his vibrant impasto portraits and cityscapes, died on November 11 in London at age 93. A leading figurative painter of the postwar period ...

While I was fishing in the dull canal’; but it is also that of ‘the violet hour, the evening hour that strives / Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea’. This range of tone was one of the ...