Frank Auerbach:
Drawings of People

The first extended study of Frank Auerbach’s remarkable portrait drawings reveals their complexity and ambition as works of graphic art

This book offers an original approach to one of Britain’s leading artists: Frank Auerbach. It looks in detail at his portrait drawings, which Auerbach has been making since the 1950s, and which he has always considered important, free‑standing works of art. By turns eerie, shocking, enigmatic and hauntingly tender, they demand fresh interpretation and investigation. Reproducing more than a hundred and thirty examples of these portraits, some for the first time, and featuring new essays by curators, scholars and critics, this book provides an unprecedented opportunity to explore and reassess these striking and sometimes unsettling works of graphic art. Frank Auerbach: Drawings of People includes texts by both the editors and the artist himself, and new essays by Kate Aspinall, James Finch, Alex Massouras, David Mellor and Barnaby Wright.

In conversation: Frank Auerbach, Mark Hallett and Catherine Lampert (November 2022)

To mark the publication of Frank Auerbach: Drawings of People, Frank Auerbach spoke to the book’s editors, Mark Hallett and Catherine Lampert about his drawing practice. The conversaiton was recorded and made into a short film by Jonathan Law.