Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Frank Auerbach, born 1931, British
Title:
Head of Christopher Dark
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)
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
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30)
Publications:
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)

Frank Auerbach, Frank Auerbach : currents 45, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1991, Insert sheet, NJ18 .Au5 F72 1991 + Oversize (YCBA)

Eight figurative painters, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 40, 46, no. 13, ND468.5 F5 E55 (YCBA)

William Feaver, Frank Auerbach, Rizzoli, New York, 2022, p. 323, cat. no. 385, NJ18 Au5 F43 2022

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)

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 24, no. 69, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9288