FRANK AUERBACH - TO THE STUDIO DOCUMENTARY

I watched an amazing documentary last night – Frank Auerbach - To The Studio - gave me goose bumps!

It opens a rare window into his secret, obsessive but brilliant world. Fascinating and compelling, Auerbach's work is fiercely original, disquieting and yet beautiful.

I saw Head of Gerda Boehm at Bowie the Collector, Sotheby's, London in November 2016. Bowie said of this painting he owned:

"My God, yeah! I want to sound like that looks; it will give spiritual weight to my angst. Some mornings I'll look at it and go, 'Oh, God, yeah! I know!' But that same painting, on a different day, can produce in me an incredible feeling of the triumph of trying to express myself as an artist.

"Oh to have an Auerbach to wake up to. I'll content myself with the postcards I got from Tate Britain.

Auerbach once said: "What I'm trying to make is a stonking, independent, coherent image that has never been seen before … that stalks into the world like a new monster".

I love scary monsters . . .