A career-spanning exhibition of the London artist confirms his status as the quintessential painter of the capital’s inner peripheries
Piano Nobile, London 1 March – 22 May ...
... his friend the painter Leon Kossoff (1926-2019), his cousin Gerda Boehm (1907-2006), and his wife, Julia Wolstenholme (b1933), as well as emotive self-portraits that would...
... war, he studied in London at St Martin’s School of Art (1949-52), where he met Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, and then at the Royal College of Art (1952-55). In 1955, ...
Colour, gesture and expression permeate the works of Chaïm Soutine and Leon Kossoff, but this exhibition cleverly allows each artist to be seen on his own terms
Hastings Contem...
... lines and pockmarked concrete, the Scars themed room is particularly powerful, filled with earth-toned, ruined landscapes by Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, as well as Gu...
... artists Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff – provided a crucial whetstone for Metzger in terms of clarifying his own direction. Among items shown within the vitrines in the...
... the work of a painter whose teaching was formative for other celebrated British artists such as Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach. I was disappointed to discover that the ex...
... Piper to Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff and Ben Johnson, this is a most impressive show. With the earliest dated works, Old St Paul’s Diptych (1616) by Gipkin and London S...
... along with Freud, Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, but he never quite achieved the same level of recognition. There are three of his canvases here, in a room with t...
... Portrait, 1949) to the remarkable etching, Self-Portrait: Reflection (1996); two paintings by Francis Bacon (1909-92); the heavily impasto Head of Man (Self-Portrait) (196...
... Leon Kossoff, and London-based RB Kitaj), even though British artists in Australia from the 1970s have themselves developed a wide range of art practices. Their own traini...
... period for both, which may indeed lead to the proverbial bullfight.
Drawing is subject to a fresh wave of interest. Drawn works such as those by Leon Kossoff (page 120) ...
... Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Patrick Caulfield, William Coldstream, David Hockney, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Richard Hamilton and Euan Uglow – in such loose...
... that had seemed in danger of dying out. His art school contemporaries and artist friends included Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff and David Hockney; they remain...
... Leon Kossoff and Michael Andrews as well as himself ) may have always rankled with the incumbent curatorial and critical powers that be in London.
One characteristic of ...
... disappointing. The Leon Kossoff, 'Self-Portrait with Christchurch' (1989), for example, is masterly but not available, although much reproduced is Suzanne Valadon's 'The B...
... Michael Craig-Martin, Tracey Emin, Leon Kossoff, Rachel Whiteread. The amount of information within the work of the individual artists’ work and collectively as an exhib...
... fact continued to attend Bomberg’s classes at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Like the other artists of his generation and slightly older (Fran...
... the exhibition's implicit assertion of the inseparability of living art from the great art of the past". (14)
Leon Kossoff has taken inspiration by drawing from paintin...