Post № 71 - Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads review: war-scarred faces on paper that has taken a pounding

These portraits from the dark postwar years have been so reworked that the paper is often gouged through. The results feel as war-damaged as his family – yet still thrillingly alive

Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads is at The Courtauld Institute, London, until 27 May