Auerbach creates intensely expressive portrait head studies with a focus on close psychological intimacy, sharing Freud's commitment to figurative portraiture within the British school. His works carry the same raw, unidealized examination of the human face through a monochromatic and textured visual language.

Kollwitz was a master printmaker whose etchings and lithographs focus on expressive, emotionally charged portrait heads rendered in stark black and white. Her intimate monochrome figurative works share the same technical seriousness and psychological depth found in Freud's printmaking practice.

Kossoff produced a significant body of expressive figurative portraits and head studies that reflect the same intimate and unflinching examination of human subjects central to Freud's etching. As a fellow member of the School of London, his work shares the monochrome intensity and raw figurative directness of this specific piece.