Frank Auerbach German-British, b. 1931
Tree at Tretire, 1976
Screenprint and etching, with pen additions in blue inkP
rinted on laid F.J.Head watermarked paper
rinted on laid F.J.Head watermarked paper
11 5/8 x 11 5/8 in
29.6 x 29.6 cm
29.6 x 29.6 cm
Working proof, with pen additions in blue ink, aside from the edition of 30
Signed ‘Frank Auerbach’ in pencil and inscribed 'Artists Proof'
Although landscape has played a major role in his painting, this is one of only two landscape prints in Auerbach’s oeuvre. The subject is a tree in Herefordshire - seen...
Although landscape has played a major role in his painting, this is one of only two landscape prints in Auerbach’s oeuvre. The subject is a tree in Herefordshire - seen from above out of an upstairs window. First Auerbach tried to etch the plate at the printers from his drawings but this didn’t work so he eventually took the plates with him to the country and etched the scene from life in situ. A chalk, charcoal and gouache of the same subject is in the permanent collection of National Galleries Scotland.
‘Avoiding any formula for trees, he caught the amorphous instability of the vast masses of foliage, seen from a position which masked their supporting anatomy, with a series of broad, swaying, multivalent shapes, marked out in screenprinted lines across the finer grained etching’ - Michael Podro, 1990.
‘Avoiding any formula for trees, he caught the amorphous instability of the vast masses of foliage, seen from a position which masked their supporting anatomy, with a series of broad, swaying, multivalent shapes, marked out in screenprinted lines across the finer grained etching’ - Michael Podro, 1990.
