Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads
Repeatedly drawing the same sitters from among his circle of close friends, Auerbach conveys his subjects with truth, tenderness and empathy, getting to the very heart of them
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Repeatedly drawing the same sitters from among his circle of close friends, Auerbach conveys his subjects with truth, tenderness and empathy, getting to the very heart of them
Joan Myers’s work in the Battle of Britain has been commemorated in an exhibition at the RAF Museum. Her neice Lucy Daltroff is kvelling
The exhibition at the Courtauld focuses on a small group of pioneering charcoal drawings produced by Frank Auerbach in the 1950s and 1960s.
Artist Frank Auerbach is considered one of the foremost post war painters, now 92 he is showing previously unseen charcoal portraits at The…
Rules in art exist to be broken but it takes chutzpah, which could explain why so many rule-breakers in modern figurative art were Jewish. Given that they were breaking the law by making figurative art in the first place, they went for broke. Where Soutine’s subjects look small and doll-like, Kossoff’s feel monumental regardless of