Frank Auerbach painting seized from money launderer to be sold by NCA

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Albert Street, 2009, estimated to be worth several million pounds, was recovered from Lenn Mayhew-Lewis

The painting – Albert Street, 2009 oil on canvas, 112 x 122cm – is part of Auerbach’s long-running series that depicts a street in Camden Town, north London.The painting – Albert Street, 2009 oil on canvas, 112 x 122cm – is part of Auerbach’s long-running series that depicts a street in Camden Town, north London.

Mayhew-Lewis has been on the run since failing to appear at a sentencing hearing a year ago, with the NCA describing him as someone who offered “services that helped criminals blur the origins of their cash by using multiple companies to filter payments”.The NCA confirmed that the painting was bought in 2017 for £1.6m, but noted that Auerbach’s works can fetch sums in excess of £5m when at auction.

Auerbach was born on 29 April 1931 in Berlin to Jewish parents. He was sent to Britain as a seven-year-old to escape Nazi persecution, while his parents remained in Germany and were killed in concentration camps during the second world war.

 

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