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Frank Auerbach and the National Gallery: Working after the Masters (catalogue) 83

  Frank at Bunce Court 17

  Frank drawing 10

  Frank at the LCC ‘Open-Air Exhibition’, Embankment Gardens, London 26

  Frank and Stella in the garden of 33 Somerset Road, Brentford 110

  Frankfurt 78

  Frazer, James 22

  The French Lieutenant’s Woman 150

  Freud, Lucian 63, 67, 86, 92, 114, 120, 121, 122–23, 123, 124, 128, 133–39, 138, 140–41, 142, 189, 191, 195, 208; Frank Auerbach 134, 135; Hotel Bedroom 63; Portrait of the Hound 139

  Fried, Michael 147

  Friedländer, Emma 19

  Frost, Robert 6

  Fussell, Michael 35

  Futurism 24

  Gabo, Naum 69

  Garland, Ken 189

  Gayford, Martin 59, 195

  George, Patrick 74, 137

  Germany 14–15, 28, 78, 80, 142, 162

  Giacometti, Alberto 92, 103, 121–22, 158, 181, 189, 199, 208

  Giacometti, Annette 121–22, 199

  Gillespie, Helen 100, 128

  Giotto 158–59

  Golden Lion prize 158

  Golding, John 140

  Goldoni, Carlo 23

  Goulding, Sir Basil 157

  Gowing, Lawrence 137

  Goya, Francisco 100, 103

  Greenberg, Clement 147

  Greene, Graham 178

  Gris, Juan 80

  The Guardian 19

  Haarlem, Hals Museum 157

  The Hague, Gemeentemuseum 157

  Hale, Sheila 144

  Hals, Frans 100, 105

  Hamburg 15; Kunstverein 162

  Hamilton, Ian 119

  Hamilton, Richard 76, 141–42

  Hamilton Fraser, Donald 35

  Hammer, Martin 125

  Hardy, Thomas 214; An Ancient to Ancients 214–15

  Harrison, Martin 124, 125

  Harrison, Tony 212–14

  Harvey, Laurence 23, 68

  Haydon, Benjamin 62

  Heidt, Gretl 18

  ‘Helen Lessore and the Beaux Arts Gallery’ (exhibition) 68

  Hepworth, Barbara 85

  Hess, Thomas 94

  Hill, Anthony 35

  Hitchens, Ivon 31

  Hitler, Adolf 14, 80

  Hockney, David 127, 140

  Hoffnung, Gerard 19

  Hofmann, Hans, School of Fine Art 37

  Hogarth, William 62

  Holbein, Hans 25

  Holden, Cliff 28

  Holland 94

  Holmes, Phil 35, 38

  Holocaust 9, 163

  Hopper, Edward 93

  Hoyland, John 86

  Hughes, Robert 29, 30, 46, 100, 117, 158, 163, 182, 185, 189

  Hull, Ferens Art Gallery 69

  ‘The Human Clay’ (exhibition) 140

  Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique 212

  International Theatre Group 22–23, 24

  Jackson, Harold 19

  Jerusalem, Yad Vashem 20

  Jews, Judaism 14, 20, 79, 80, 104, 141

  John, Gwen 76

  Johns, Jasper 208–11

  J.Y.M. see Mills, Julia Yardley Briggs

  Kandinsky, Wassily 80

  Katia (student) 141

  Kaufman, George F., and Connelly, Marc 23

  Kavanagh, Patrick 103

  Keats, John 214

  Kepler, Johannes 170

  Keys, Joe 73

  Kiki, John 74

  Kimmelmann, Michael 208

  Kindertransport 16

  Kinley, Peter 35

  Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig 141

  Kirkman, James 128–29, 189

  Kitaj, R. B. 74, 127, 140–41, 162, 189

  Klee, Paul 22

  Kleist, Heinrich von, The Broken Jug 24

  Kline, Franz 94

  Knowles, Mike 75

  Koestler, Arthur 169

  Kokoschka, Oskar 141

  Kossoff, Leon 28, 34, 35–37, 42, 55, 62–66, 64, 65, 71, 72, 85, 97, 140–41, 142, 154–57, 189, 235

  Kunstforum 162

  La Rue, Danny 121

  Lacy, Peter 122

  Lampert, Catherine 8, 193, 235

  Landau, David 189, 192, 196, 199

  Landau, Max and Mia 199–200

  Langford Grove school, Sussex 72

  Lanyon, Peter 85

  Larkin, Philip 205

  The Last Art Film 171

  Lawrence, D. H. 108

  Le Havre 15

  Leavis, F. R. 29

  Léger, Fernand 142

  Leith, Rosemary Bridge 73

  Leonardo da Vinci 157

  Lessore, Frederick 67

  Lessore, Helen 32, 66–69, 72, 85, 120–21, 128, 182–83

  Lessore, Henry and John 67

  Lhote, André 31

  Lipchitz, Jacques 69

  The Listener 66

  Lloyd, Frank 127

  London: Beaux Arts Gallery 66–71, 85, 108, 128; Borough Polytechnic 24, 32, 37, 46; Brentford 105–14, 110, 111, 121; Camberwell College of Arts 74; Camden Palace Theatre 173; Courtauld Gallery 56, 59; Ealing School of Art 72; Empire Cinema, Leicester Square 60, 70; Euston Road School 41, 45; Golden Lion pub 118, 119; Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute 22, 24; Hampstead Road 178, 181; Hanover Gallery 45, 121; Hayward Gallery 6, 125, 135; ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) 93; Leicester Galleries 31; London County Council ‘Open-Air Exhibition’ 26, 27–28; Marlborough Fine Art 6, 9, 68, 105, 108, 125, 127–29, 133, 158, 162, 170, 189; National Gallery 31, 66, 105, 137, 147, 148, 169; National Portrait Gallery 200; Offer Waterman gallery 105; Primrose Hill 54, 61, 174, 177; Prince’s Drawing School 192, 212; Royal Academy of Arts 6, 85, 182; Royal College of Art 41–42, 53, 67, 72, 104, 119, 125–27; St Martin’s School of Art 24, 31–37, 47; Shell Buildings 56, 58; Slade School of Fine Art 6, 25, 32, 41, 45, 46, 67, 73, 74, 75–76, 108, 120, 121, 137, 140, 185; Tate Gallery 68–69, 71, 93, 108, 109, 114, 121, 122; Tate Modern 14; Tooth, Arthur, & Sons 69; Victoria & Albert Museum 31, 62, 67; Vincent Terrace 152, 153; Whitechapel Gallery 93, 127, 194; Wimbledon School of Art 25

  London Group 28

  London Magazine 22–23, 139

  Long & Kentish 176

  Louis, Morris 147

  Lowry, L. S. 76

  Lundquist, Evert 71

  MacBryde, Robert 120

  MacDiarmid, Hugh 103

  McInnerny, Lizzy 199

  MacNeice, Louis 120

  Malevich, Kazimir 157

  Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery 69

  Manet, Edouard 147

  Marckwald, Pilar 20

  Marckwald, Wilhelm 20–21, 170

  Marcus, Frank 19, 22–23, 24

  Matisse, Henri 31, 75, 158, 169, 208, 212

  Matisse, Marguerite 208

  Maupassant, Guy de 181

  Mazzetti, Lorenza 120

  Mead, Dorothy 28

  Medley, Robert 74

  Meidner, Ludwig 141

  Metzger, Gustav 28, 62

  Michelangelo Buonarroti 18, 46, 94, 158

  Middleditch, Edward 72

  Milan 117, 157, 167

  Miller, Max 47

  Mills, Julia Yardley Briggs (J.Y.M.) 87, 97, 98, 99, 100, 128, 143, 184–85, 187

  Minton, John 41–42, 120, 122

  Miró, Joan 80, 103

  Missen, Len 28

  ‘Modern Art in the United States’ (exhibition) 93

  Mondrian, Piet 80, 86

  Moore, Henry 85, 129

  Moorhouse, Paul 59

  Motherwell, Robert 28

  Moynihan, Rodrigo 41, 42, 45

  Negri, Richard 25

  neo-romanticism 41, 45, 85

  Neue Sachlichkeit 162

  New Haven, Connecticut 142

  New Statesman 16, 69

  New York 37, 93–94, 127, 154, 163, 189, 208; Marlborough-Gerson Gallery 154; Museum of Modern Art 93

  New York School 94, 140

  New York Times 154

  The New Yorker 129
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  Nicholson, Ben 85

  Nicholson, William 76

  Northern Ireland 141–42

  Nothing But a Man (film) 19

  Nuremberg Laws 14

  Observer 129

  O’Connor, Patrick 22–23

  Origo, Iris 14, 15, 77

  Padua 158–59

  Paolozzi, Eduardo 69, 120–21

  Paris 31, 63, 93, 122, 182, 199

  Paris Match 124

  Parton, Geoffrey 162, 170, 189

  Pasmore, Victor 45–46, 69

  Patrick, Mr 24, 25

  Peppiatt, Michael 66

  Philadelphia Museum of Art 154

  Phillips, Jill 189

  Phillips, Tom 74, 189

  Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista 169

  Picasso, Pablo 31, 33, 62, 80, 109, 211–12

  Pinter, Harold 120

  Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 56

  Pittsburgh International Exhibition 68

  Podro, Charlotte 189

  Podro, Michael 74, 144, 147, 189, 190

  Polaroid photograph of J.Y.M. in pose 187

  Polke, Sigmar 158

  Pollock, Jackson 94, 128

  Pop art 125

  Pope, Mike 67

  Prendergast, Peter 75

  Pretty Things 72

  Price, Vincent 125

  Quakers 15, 79

  Queen (magazine) 140

  Ranicki, Andrew 79–80, 81

  Ratcliff, Deborah 185

  Reich, David 77

  Reich, Herbert 77

  Reich-Ranicki, Helene 77

  Reich-Ranicki, Marcel 77–80, 81

  Reich-Ranicki, Tosia (Teofila) 79

  Reid, Sir Norman 147–48

  Rembrandt van Rijn 75, 80–83, 105, 154, 169, 207–8

  ‘Rembrandt’s Women’ (exhibition) 207

  Richmond, Peter (Miles) 28

  Richter, Gerhard 208

  Riley, Bridget 42

  Roberts, William 140

  Robertson, Bryan 127

  Robey, George 47

  Roemer, Michael 16, 19, 68, 154

  Rome, Vatican collection 143

  Rosenberg, Harold 94

  Rosse, Anne, Countess of (Anne Messel) 157

  Rosse, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of 157

  Roth, Philip 178

  Rothko, Mark 69, 128

  Rotterdam, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum 157

  Rowlett, George 74

  Rubens, Peter Paul 50, 148, 181

  Ruisdael, Jacob van 181

  Russell, John 130–33

  Sartre, Jean-Paul 59

  Saunders, Peter 75

  Savage, Robert 121

  Schiele, Egon 127

  ‘School of London’ 140

  Schuelein, Margaret 189

  Schuelein, Rainer 19, 22

  Schwitters, Kurt 127

  Scott, William 85

  Secombe, Harry 47

  Seth, Shanti and Henny 19–20

  Seth, Vikram 19–20

  Shapiro, Karl 78

  Sheffield 53

  Sickert, Thérèse 67

  Sickert, Walter 32–35, 67, 124–25, 130, 182–83, 207

  Sidcup School of Art 72, 87

  Sisson, C. H. 68

  Smart, Elizabeth 103

  Smith, David 128

  Smith, Jack 35, 85

  Smith, Stevie 103

  Snowdon, Lord 157; Frank in the studio with canvas to the wall, ‘at a banal stage’ 102

  Somerset, David 127

  Sonnenfeldt, Helmut 19

  Sotheby’s London 167

  Southampton 15, 129

  Soutine, Chaïm 71, 80, 94, 95

  Spectator 108

  Spencer, Stanley 114

  Spender, Matthew 75

  Spender, Stephen 120

  Staël, Nicolas de 94

  The Stage 24

  Stalingrad Sword 22

  Steele-Perkins, Chris, Drawings for ‘Tree on Primrose Hill’ and ‘From the Studios’, with sketch after Titian 177

  Stein, Christopher 75

  Stella, Frank 147

  Stern, Carl 19

  Stodola, Georg 19

  Stoffels, Hendrickje 207

  Stokes Paints 168

  Streep, Meryl 150

  Stuart, Gilbert 157

  Stubbs, John Heath 120

  Studio interior 197

  The studio with ‘Interior Vincent Terrace’ (1982–84) in progress 153

  Sunday Times 71, 130

  Surrealism 93

  Sutherland, Graham 45

  Swift, Patrick 103

  Sylvester, David 24, 42, 66, 67, 69, 71, 92, 121, 128

  Sylvester, Jacqueline (later Marcus) 24

  Symons, Patrick 74

  Synge, John 128

  ‘Ten Years of Painting by Frank Auerbach’ (exhibition) 128

  Theresienstadt (concentration camp) 19

  Thomas, Dylan 120

  Tilson, Joe 35, 67, 189

  The Times 71, 142

  Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) 105, 144, 148

  Titian 142–47, 176, 177, 212

  Together (film) 120

  Treblinka, Poland 79

  Trench Hall, Shropshire 18

  Tretire, Herefordshire 156, 157

  Trivier, Marc, Frank Auerbach seated in his studio 7

  Tucholsky, Kurt 79

  Turner, J. M. W. 18, 56, 62, 181

  Tusa, John 42, 159

  Tynan, Kenneth 129–30

  Uglow, Euan 74, 85, 92, 137

  Ulm, Landschulheim Herrlingen 15

  Unger, Peppi 18

  Ustinov, Peter 23, 46, 47

  Van Gogh, Vincent 104, 127

  Velázquez, Diego 75, 159

  Venice 144; Biennale XLII 158, 159, 160

  Veronese, Paolo 144, 169

  Virtue, John 75

  Vlaminck, Maurice de 80

  Vorticism 24

  Vuillard, Edouard 109, 142

  Wallis, Nevile 108, 133

  Warsaw, Ghetto 79

  Washington, SS 15

  Watson, James D. 169

  Wauchope, O. S. 46–47

  Webb, Clifford 32

  West, Estella (Stella, E.O.W.) 23, 38–41, 39, 46–50, 51, 52, 66, 67, 68, 69, 87, 91, 100, 103, 105–17, 110, 111, 115, 116, 120, 121, 122, 128, 129, 184, 208

  West, Julia 47, 106, 108, 111, 117, 129

  West, Dr Michael 47, 108

  West, Michael 47

  West, Sarah 47, 106, 108–9, 111, 117

  Wheatley, John 32

  Whishaw, Anthony 67

  Whitman, Walt 127

  Wiggins, Colin 83, 148

  Wilde, Gerald 47, 120

  Wilding, Michael 23

  Wilenski, R. H. 18

  Wilkie, David 143

  Wirth-Miller, Denis 72

  Wollheim, Richard 144–47

  Wonnacott, John 75

  Wright, Barnaby 56

  Wright, David 103

  Wullschlager, Jackie 105, 200

  Wyndham, Francis 140

  X (magazine) 103

  Yeats, W. B. 189, 214

  ‘Young Contemporaries’ (exhibition) 127

  Zehden, Siegfried and Lucie 19

  Ziegler, Archibald 24

  Zurich 157, 158

  First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 as

  Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting

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