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Frank Auerbach: Faint Malodorous Light

"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing." Head of J.Y.M., 1969 J.Y.M. Seated, 1986-87 To The Studio, 1982-83 Frank Auerbach , London 1962,photograph by  Lord Snowdon (c) "To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination." Figure on a Bed, 1969 E.O.W. Half-Length Nude, 1958 Railway Arches, Bethnal Green II 1958-59 Frank Auerbach in his studio holding his picture of the building site on Earl's Court Road in 1953 Maples Demolition, 1960 Frank Auerbach  Portrait of Catherine Lampert  (1981-2) Head of E.O.W. 1955 (c) Photograph by Bob Collins "It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning....