Frank Auerbach on Art and Life

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Frank Auerbach is an astoundingly original artist – not only in terms of the vibrant, stirring pieces he creates but also because of the way he works. A self-professed "darling of the colour merchants," he uses paint in vast quantities, piling it thickly onto the canvas in his signature impasto manner, and often scraping up to 90% of the original application off and starting once more from scratch, over and over again, until he finally attains a sense of completion. He also…