Frank Auerbach

Description

Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Frank Auerbach:
The Charcoal Heads presents a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful largescale
drawings by the artist. The catalogue includes a new piece of writing on one of the
drawings from critically acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín.
This catalogue explores one of Frank Auerbach’s most remarkable bodies of work – a series of large-scale portrait heads made in charcoal, produced during his early years as
a young artist in postwar London. Auerbach (b. 1931) spent months on each drawing,
working and reworking them during numerous sessions with his sitters.
This prolonged and vigorous process of creation is evident in the finished drawings,
which are richly textured and layered. Auerbach would sometimes even break through the paper and patch it up before carrying on. His heads thus emerge from the darkness of the charcoal with burning vitality, born of an artistic as well as a physical struggle
with the medium. The process of repeated creation and destruction, of which these
images bear the visible scars, speaks profoundly of their times, as people rebuilt their
lives after the ruination and upending of the war.
The exhibition will be the first time Auerbach’s extraordinary drawings, made in
the 1950s and early 1960s, have been brought together as a comprehensive group. They
will be shown together with a selection of paintings he made of the same sitters; for the
artist, painting and drawing have always been deeply entwined.
The accompanying catalogue – by Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery, Barnaby
Wright, and with an essay by one of the greatest contemporary voices in the English
language, Colm Tóibín – is the first publication to explore in depth this magnificent
series. Tóibín spent several hours one afternoon in front of Auerbach’s Self-Portrait
(1958), which features on the front cover of the book, looking closely and taking notes.
His essay is an account of his experience and offers new insights into the work and the
nature of self-portaiture.

Détails

Auteur: Barnaby Wright, Colm Tóibín

Editeur: HOLBERTON

Format: Relié

Presentation: Relié

Date de parution: 03 2Février4

Nombre de pages: 136

Dimensions: 25,6 x 26,7 x 1,7

Prix publique: 35,00 €

Information complémentaires

Classification: Arts et Beaux livres > Arts majeurs > Arts graphiques (dessin, estampes, fresques, graffiti, gravures...)

Code Classification: 3667 > 3676 > 3682

EAN-13: 9781913645595