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

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Birthday card from Frank Auerbach to Lucien Freud. A sketch based on a photograph taken by Kevin Davis in 2002 of Auerbach and Freud in the Cock Tavern, East London. Auerbach, Frank (British, b.1931). Pen and ink on paper, 2002.

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Accession Number: PD.221-2015
© Frank Auerbach. Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 953 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 786.83kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2016:02:26 09:28:30

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