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Oxford Street Building Site

© the artist. Image credit: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

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Auerbach attended David Bomberg's drawing classes while studying at St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art. This urban landscape is in the expressionist vein of Bomberg's late paintings, proffering not a window on the world, but a world brought close. As with all his landscapes, this was painted in the artist's studio, based on sketches made at the location. During the late 1950s Auerbach was drawn to the craters of Oxford Street and the Shell building on the banks of the Thames and he produced a series of paintings based on building sites, which have been seen to reflect his fascination with the destruction he saw around him as a child. These have the quality of scenery, providing a link between his interest in theatre and Giovanni Piranesi's architectural fantasies, which Bomberg, he has said, had shown him 'quite early on'.

Pallant House Gallery

Chichester

Title

Oxford Street Building Site

Date

c.1960

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 55 x W 40 cm

Accession number

CHCPH 1052

Acquisition method

on loan from Colin St John Wilson, since 2004

Work type

Painting

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