Frank Auerbach, The Charcoal Heads at the Courtauld Gallery review: at 92, he's still going strong
by Melanie McDonagh
Feb 08, 2024
2 minutes
Heads and London landscapes, that’s what Frank Auerbach is known for. And this exhibition at the Courtauld is heads: 17 charcoal portraits and six oil paintings, of the same sitters over roughly the same period, 1956-1965.
The drawings are monochrome – charcoal and chalk with a liberal use of typewriter rubber – on big, sometimes patched, sheets of paper.
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