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Bruce McLean

Pose Work for Plinths 3 1971

Photographs on board

frame: 785 x 717 x 20 mm

image: 750 x 682 mm

Purchased 1981© Bruce McLean

Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979 opens at Tate Britain on 12 April

Martin Screiner
Dyp dal I, 2016, 200x300 cm, mixed media on industrial tarp

"After all this time"
 at Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo 

Observingart: David Hockney at Tate Britain in 2017

David Hockney
My Parents 1977
Oil on canvas
support: 1829 x 1829 mm
© David Hockney 2010

David Hockney is without a doubt one of Britain's greatest living artists. His practice is both consistent, in its pursuit of core concerns, while also wonderfully diverse. Hockney's impact on post-war art, and culture more generally, is inestimable, and this is a fantastic opportunity to see the full trajectory of his career to date.

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Observingarts: On Auerbach: Painting, process, landscape at Tate Britain 24th of February

Frank Auerbach

Mornington Crescent – Winter morning

1989

© Frank Auerbach

How can painting capture place through time? For half a century Frank Auerbach has lived and worked in Camden Town, documenting this changing urban landscape and recording ‘the life that seemed… passionate and exciting and disappearing all the time.’

This conversation between painter George Shaw and Auerbach scholar William Feaver, chaired by National Gallery curator Colin Wiggins, focuses on Auerbach’s urban landscapes, discussing his process in relation to contemporary painterly and personal engagements with the concepts of place and time.

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Observingarts: artist and empire at Tate Britain

Take a look at how the British Empire has shaped art past and present! Tate Britain's critically acclaimed Artist and Empire still runs if you are in London. Featuring a vast array of fascinating objects representing a complex mix of traditions, places and cultures through which the fragmented history of the Empire is told.

Observingarts: Frank Auerbach at Tate Britain 9. October

Frank Auerbach (b 1931)

Head of William Feaver 2003

Oil paint on board

451 x 406 mm

Collection of Gina and Stuart Peterson

© Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine

Painter Frank Auerbach has made some of the most resonant and inventive paintings of recent times, of people and urban landscapes. He works every day, constantly returning to a narrow range of subjects: landscapes near his studio in North London and a relatively small number of sitters, whom he will paint weekly. 

Born in Berlin in 1931, Auerbach came to Britain in 1939, just before his eighth birthday, as a refugee from the Nazis. After attending Bunce Court School in Kent, he moved to London in 1947, where he has lived since. 

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