Birthday card from Frank Auerbach to Lucien Freud, by Frank Auerbach

An image of Birthday card from Frank Auerbach to Lucien Freud. Auerbach, Frank (British, b.1931). A sketch based on a photograph taken by Bruce Bernard in 1990 of Freud standing next to a portrait of Leigh Bowery. Acquisition Credit: Allocated by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax, from the estate of Lucien Freud, 2014.

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Birthday card from Frank Auerbach to Lucien Freud. Auerbach, Frank (British, b.1931). A sketch based on a photograph taken by Bruce Bernard in 1990 of Freud standing next to a portrait of Leigh Bowery. Acquisition Credit: Allocated by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax, from the estate of Lucien Freud, 2014.

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Accession Number: PD.217-2015
© Frank Auerbach. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 808 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 99.69kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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