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In "Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads," readers are treated to a compelling exploration of the artist's extraordinary series of large drawings...

John Evans on a new exhibition of unique and powerful charcoal portraits by Frank Auerbach

The London-based artist, who escaped Nazi Germany as a boy, developed a technique of repeatedly erasing and redoing his drawings, often over a period of months

German-British painter Frank Auerbach repeatedly sketched his sitters for this series of large-scale charcoal portraits created between 1956 and 1962, erasing the image after each session until only a ghostly outline remained. Until he thought he had captured the essence of the subject, he would

The best exhibitions around London to see in October 2023 include Claudette Johnson at The Courtauld, Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy, and more.

In a Victorian house in North London on a recent afternoon, Frank Auerbach, one of Britain’s foremost painters, was working in his spartan, paint

Oblique views of London, Caribbean memories and poetic etchings highlight the itinerant artist’s flair for reinvention

A pea green fishing boat drifts mysteriously on a moonlit sea. Along its length stand ghostly figures looking out to port....

The exhibition at the Courtauld features paintings completed in London after Peter Doig moved back from Trinidad in 2021.

<strong>Letter: </strong>The idea that he painted over Helen Saunders’ work in ‘a fit of pique’ is unlikely, says <strong>Alan Munton</strong>