Artist Monograph

Frank Auerbach, British

British, born Germany. 1931–2024

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Drawing	2	40%
Etching	2	40%
Oil Painting	1	20%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	4	80%
Painting & Sculpture	1	20%

Production by Decade

1

1970s

1

1980s

1

1990s

2

2000s

Classification Types

Drawing — 2
Print — 2
Painting — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	2	40%
Medium (30–100 cm)	3	60%

Range: 15.2 cm → 77.2 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1981	1
1982	1
1994	1
2005	1
2008	1

Currently On View

"MoMA, Floor 1, 1 North" — 2

British Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 5 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Head of Catherine Lampert VI Drawing Acc. 436.1981	1979–80	Charcoal and chalk on paper	30 3/8 x 23" (77.2 x 58.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Lucian Freud Print Acc. 116.1982	1981	Etching and aquatint	plate: 6 x 5 7/16" (15.2 x 13.8cm); sheet: 15 13/16 x 13 3/16" (40.1 x 33.5cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg in honor of Eleanor Sayre
Ruth I Print Acc. 286.1994	1994	Etching and aquatint	plate: 9 15/16 x 8 1/16" (25.3 x 20.4 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 12 5/8" (38 x 32 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Johanna and Leslie J. Garfield Fund
Reclining Head of Julia Drawing Acc. 1203.2005.a-b	2003	Pencil on paper	22 1/2 x 30 1/4" (57.2 x 76.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Head of Jake Painting Acc. 203.2008	2006-07	Oil on canvas	24 1/8 x 22" (61.3 x 55.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of an anonymous donor