Frank Auerbach
1959-60
Charcoal and chalk on paper
78.7 x 58.1 cm
Although heavily worked and scarred in places, this drawing is also subtly and softly rendered. Frank Auerbach was careful to model the fine features of Stella West with great sensitivity and attention to detail. Auerbach had a very close relationship with West and admired her greatly. Although she had been widowed at an early age with three young children to raise, West retained a spirit of freedom and disregard for convention that Auerbach found inspirational.