Leon Kossoff







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Leon Kossoff - Tate Gallery 1996 Book

Leon Kossoff - London Landscapes Exhibition Book 2013

Leon Kossoff - Recent Paintings Whitechapel 1972 Book

Leon Kossoff - Paintings from a Decade 1970-80 Book

Leon Kossoff - Drawings 1985 to 1992 Exhibition Catalogue

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Leon Kossoff is one of the most important British artists of the post-war period. Among the main preoccupations of his art has been the changing face of London's urban landscape: his earliest subjects documented London's passage from wartime destruction to regeneration. The range of Kossoff's subjects has since extended to swimming pools, railways and street scenes in paintings which evoke everyday urban existence. Kossoff's other main concern has been the human figure, and his portraits and studies are intense, yet also intimate, evocations of human presence. In 1996, the Tate Gallery mounted a retrospective exhibition of Kossoff's work, including more than 80 paintings from all phases of his career...

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Key Dates

1926
Born London

1945-48
Military service in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany

1949-53
Studied at St Martin's School of Art and with David Bomberg at Borough Polytechnic, London

1953-56
Royal College of Art, London

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Trivia

  • In the 1960s, Leon Kossoff would work at only two paintings (a portrait and a landscape) and once embarked he would obsessively, not stopping, to finish a work for which there was an end in sight. By the 1970s, he was working on five or six paintings together.

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  • He works quickly using a limited number of colours which he mixes that day and a large painting may be the result of only a few hours work - however that painting may have been begun and destroyed many times before.

  • For Kossoff drawing is a necessary prelude to painting and all the drawings are working ideas enabling him to move into the painting and bring the presence of the motif or subject into the studio.

  • It is not unusual for a day's work to end in seeming failure - a "grey mass". If so, it is scraped off and started again...Sometimes he is not sure whether to continue with a particular work and it may be left in the studio. Some decisions can only be made after weeks or months have elapsed.

  • Kossoff has never drawn or painted from photographs.

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    Solo Exhibitions

    2002
    Leon Kossoff: Drawn to Painting after Poussin, Rubens, and Other Related Works, Pillsbury & Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas, June 28 - August 24

    Leon Kossoff, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia, March 20 - April 27

    2000
    Recent Paintings and Drawings, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, N.Y., April 11 - May 20
    Poussin Landscapes by Kossoff, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, January 18 - April 16
    Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff Drawings and Prints after Nicolas Poussin, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, January 20 - April 2
    Leon Kossoff, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, New York, April 13 - May 20, travelling to Annely Juda Fine Art, London, June 1 - July 22

    1996
    Leon Kossoff, Tate Gallery, London, June 6 - September 2, 1996

    1995-96
    Leon Kossoff, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, June-October, 1995; traveled to, Dusseldorf Kunstverein, Dusseldorf, Germany, December 12, 1995 - January 21, 1996; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, February 8 - March 31, 1996

    1993
    Leon Kossoff Drawings 1985 to 1992, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, February 4 - March 6; traveled to, L.A. Louver, Venice, California, May 8 - June 5

    1988-89
    Leon Kossoff, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, September 9 - October 8, 1988; traveled to, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York

    1984
    Leon Kossoff, Fischer Fine Art Ltd, London, March - April; traveled to, L.A. Louver, Venice, California, November - December

    1983
    Leon Kossoff, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, New York, March 5 - 26

    1982
    L.A. Louver, Venice, California

    1981
    Paintings 1970-80, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

    1980
    Recent Drawings, Riverside Studio, London

    1979
    Fischer Fine Art Ltd, London

    1975
    Fischer Fine Art Ltd, London

    1973
    Fischer Fine Art Ltd, London

    1972
    Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

    1968
    Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London

    1957-64
    Five exhibitions at Beaux Arts Gallery, London


    Selected Group Exhibitions

    2000
    Andrew Dempsey Exhibition London Painters, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico, April - September (presented by The British Council and Consejo Nacional para la Culturay las Artes)
    Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London, June 14 - September 17

    1998-99
    L'École de Londres de Bacon à Bevan, Foundation Dina Vierny / Musee Maillol, Paris, October 10, 1998 - January 20, 1999; traveled to: Auditorio De Gallicia, Santiago de Compostella, February 6 - April 4, 1999; Kunsthaus, Vienna, May 11 - August 29, 1999

    1995-96
    From London, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, July 1 - September 5, 1995; traveled to, Musee de l'Etat-Staatsmuseum, Luxembourg, September 22 - November 5, 1995; Musee Cantonal de Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, November 16, 1995 - January 31, 1996; Fundacio Caixa de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, February 16 - April 16, 1996

    1995
    Identity and Alterity, Figures of the Body 1895 - 1995, Venice Biennale, Museo Correr, Palazzo Grassi and Giardini di Castello, Venice, Italy, June-October

    1994
    The British Imagination, Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY
    The Pursuit of the Real: British figurative painting from Sickert to Bacon, Manchester City Art Gallery; travelled to, The Barbican Art Gallery, London; Glasgow City Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

    1988
    Past and Present, Arts Council of Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery and tour
    The British Picture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
    Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art, London

    1987-88
    British Figurative Painting, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California and tour

    1987
    British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London Works on Paper, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
    Current Affairs, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and British Art Council tour to Mucsarnok, Budapest; National Gallery, Prague; Zacheta, Warsaw
    A School of London (Six Figurative Painters), The British Council; European touring exhibition to Oslo, Humlebeck, Venice and Dusseldorf
    The Saatchi Collection, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

    1986
    Forty Years of Modern Art, Tate Gallery, London

    1985
    The British Show, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and British Council tour

    1984
    The Hard Won Image, Tate Gallery, London
    The Proper Study, Contemporary Figurative Paintings from Britain, The British Council, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, and Bombay Centre for the Performing Arts
    The British Art Show, Arts Council of Great Britain, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and tour

    1982
    British Watercolors and Drawings 1950 to the Present Day, The British Council; China Art Gallery, Peking; Art Gallery and Shenyang Hans Kous Museum of Art; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

    1981-82
    13 British Artists-a Painting Exhibition, Neue Gallery, Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen and Kunstverein, Mannheim
    Eight Figurative Painters, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

    1979-80
    The British Arts Show, Arts Council of Great Britain; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield and tour

    1979
    The Hayward Annual 1979, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London and tour
    This Knot of Life, Paintings and Drawings by British Artists, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California

    1978-79
    Drawing in Action-An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-Upon-Hull and tour

    1977
    British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy of Arts, London

    1976
    The Human Clay, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London (selected by R.B. Kitaj)

    1974-75
    Body and Soul, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

    1974
    British Painting '74, Arts Council of Great Britain, London

    1967
    Recent British Paintings from the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, Tate Gallery, London

    1966
    Survey of Figurative Painting, Hempstead Art Center, London

    1964
    54-64 Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, Tate Gallery, London

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    Public Collections

    Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
    Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
    Arts Council of Great Britain, London
    Australian National Gallery, Canberra
    British Council, London
    Calouste Gubenkian Foundation, Portugal
    Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
    Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
    Contemporary Art Society, London
    Government Art Collection, London
    Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford
    City Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester
    The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
    The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
    Museum of London
    Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
    National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    Rochdale Art Gallery, Lancashire
    Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
    Rugby Museum, Warwickshire
    Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
    Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-Upon-Hull
    Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London
    Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Wiltshire
    Tate Gallery, London
    Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
    Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

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    Leon Kossoff Books

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    Leon Kossoff

    Biography   Books

    Gallery

    Kossoff prints @ ebay.co.uk (direct link to prints)

    Oct 16: Leon Kossoff From Willesden Green Autumn 1991 Set of 4 Identival Postcards (Muse Productions). oct. 2016: in stock & while stocks last @ £1.99 for set of 4 INCLUDING delivery to UK address ($3.99 OUTSIDE uk)

    Oct 16: Leon Kossoff Portrait of Fidelma 1991 Set of 4 Identical Postcards (Muse Productions). oct. 2016: in stock & while stocks last @ £1.99 for set of 4 INCLUDING delivery to UK address ($4.99 OUTSIDE uk)

    Brand New Leon Kossoff Red Brick School Building, Willesden, Spring, 1981 Set of 4 Identical Postcards (Muse Productions). 2016: in stock @ £1.99 for set of 4 INCLUDING delivery to UK address $4.99 OUTSIDE UK)

    Leon Kossoff - 1998 Exhibition Catalogue

    Leon Kossoff - Annely Juda Fine Art Exhibition Catalogue 2011

    Leon Kossoff - Tate Gallery 1996 Book

    Leon Kossoff - London Landscapes Exhibition Book 2013

    Leon Kossoff - Recent Paintings Whitechapel 1972 Book

    Leon Kossoff - Paintings from a Decade 1970-80 Book

    Leon Kossoff - Drawings 1985 to 1992 Exhibition Catalogue

    Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff, Drawings and Prints after Nicholas Poussin Book

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