“Dear Ruth, I looked at your little painting yesterday, and it seemed to me to be finished…so I have arranged for it to be taken to the gallery – in wet state – in two hours time, to rest there for a couple of months before being framed…see you Thursday!!” –Frank Auerbach In the above letter, Auerbach’s sense of excitement for his recently completed ‘Head of Ruth Bromberg’ (2002) is palpable. Ruth, a renowned prints scholar and Auerbach’s close friend, sat for him every Thursday for 17 years. So

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