Christie’s is Selling a Fresh-to-Market Auerbach Painting Once Owned by Aristocratic WWII Code-Breaker

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Christie’s is Selling a Fresh-to-Market Auerbach Painting Once Owned by Aristocratic WWII Code-Breaker

Christie’s is selling a fresh-to-market Frank Auerbach painting that was once owned by a British aristocrat who worked for the highly secret Y-Service during World War II.Titled Nude on Bed III and painted in 1961, the work will headline the house’s Modern British and Irish Art evening sale on March 19 in London. It’s expected to fetch over $1 million. Auerbach died last year. He was born in Germany in 1931 to Jewish parents and became a British…