print
- Museum number
- 2013,7059.38
- Title
- Object: William Feaver
- Description
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Head and shoulders portrait of William Feaver; artist's proof. 2007
Etching, aquatint and engraving
- Production date
- 2007
- Dimensions
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Height: 405 millimetres (image)
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Height: 630 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 297 millimetres
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Width: 500 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Label text from: 2013-2014 Oct-Jan, BM, Bromberg bequest of Frank Auerbach
A former art critic of 'The Observer' newspaper, William Feaver has written extensively on Auerbach, producing the catalogue raisonné of his paintings in 2009. He has also curated many exhibitions, including the 2002 Lucian Freud retrospective at the Tate. Auerbach has told Feaver of the complexities of producing a portrait: 'If something looks like a 'portrait' it doesn't look like a person. When the forms evoked by the marks seem coherent and alive and surprising, and when there are no dead areas, I think the painting might be finished.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2013-2014 Oct-Jan, BM, Bromberg bequest of Frank Auerbach
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2013,7059.38