Painter Frank Auerbach, contemporary of Freud and Bacon, dies at 93

"Frank Auerbach, one of the greatest painters of our age, died peacefully in the early hours of Monday 11 November at his home in London", Frankie Rossi Art Projects said. Focusing on portraiture and quotidian cityscapes, the German-British artist was known for his artworks heavy with paint, created after repeatedly scraping the paint on his canvas and restarting until he was satisfied with his work. He was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery in 1978 and...