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Room 3
Brown often returns to the same painting again and again to unravel and manipulate its component parts: surface texture, colour, scale, and focus. The paintings and the sculpture in this room are all responses to two portraits by Auerbach. 'By repeating a subject you are asking people to consider what has changed, what the artist has done to change the mind of the sitter. Thus an Auerbach painting can move from heroic to dumb and then to melancholic all because I have changed my perception and palette.'
Works in this room
- New Dawn Fades 2000
Oil on panel
71.5 x 62 cm (28.1 x 24.4 in)
Private Collection - Little Death 2000
Oil on panel
68 x 54 cm (26.8 x 21.2 in)
Thomas Dane, London - The Marquess of Breadalbane 2000
Oil on panel
96 x 78.5 cm (37.7 x 30.9 in), oval
Private Collection - The Real Thing 2000
Oil on panel
81.3 x 66 cm (32 x 25.9 in)
Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada - 1888 2000
Oil paint on acrylic over plaster, vitrine
34 x 57 x 34 cm (13.3 x 22.4 x 13.3 in)
Private Collection, Munich - Kinder Transport 1999
Oil on panel
67 x 57.5 cm (26.3 x 22.6 in)
Delfina Foundation