Invisible Lines

Some thoughts on hidden boundaries that we feel but don’t see

Frank Auerbach, Head of E.O.W. (1956). Photo my own.

I’ve been thinking about lines this week — the ones that you can see and the invisible ones that you can only feel. There are spade-fulls of both in Frank Auerbach’s charcoal drawings from the 1950s and 60s, which I saw in an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in London on Thursday. It is powerful art, and I’ll come back and talk…