What drives you, Frank Auerbach? A rare final encounter with art’s great workaholic

Following the British painter’s death last week, the BBC broadcaster John Wilson recalls a revelatory interview with him at his London homeThere’s a certain romantic allure to the idea of the creative recluse – the artist who insists their work speak for itself. Alongside the Salingers, Kubricks and Garbos, Frank Auerbach always seemed to me to be a promo-dodger. So it was disarming to find myself standing in the cramped galley kitchen of a ground-floor flat in north London wit