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- Title:
- Head of Christopher Dark
- Former Title(s):
- Head of Christopher Dark, II
- Date:
- 1977
- Materials & Techniques:
- Charcoal and black chalk on moderately thick, moderately textured, white Arches wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 29 3/4 × 22 1/4 inches (75.6 × 56.5 cm), Frame: 36 5/8 × 29 1/8 × 1 1/2 inches (93 × 74 × 3.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black chalk, upper left: "Auerbach | 1977"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of R. B. Kitaj
- Copyright Status:
- © The Artist
- Accession Number:
- B1982.15.24
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- portrait
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9288
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20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 24, no. 69, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Frank Auerbach, Frank Auerbach : currents 45, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1991, Insert sheet, NJ18 .Au5 F72 1991 + Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Eight figurative painters, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 40, 46, no. 13, ND468.5 F5 E55 (YCBA) [YCBA]
William Feaver, Frank Auerbach, Rizzoli, New York, 2022, p. 323, cat. no. 385, NJ18 Au5 F43 2022 [ORBIS]
Mark Hallett, Frank Auerbach : drawings of people, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2022, p. 181, pl. 60, NJ18.Au5 A12 2022 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 24, no. 69, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]