Tag: Leon Kossoff

  • Joe Tilson – book review

    Marco Livingstone’s monograph, with more than 600 illustrations, weaves biographical detail with an authority of British art history in a definitive account of this important artist

  • Soutine/Kossoff

    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

  • Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering the Early Years, 1945-1959

    Showing work from Metzger’s formative years, much of it rarely seen before, this exhibition sheds light on the artist’s search for his own artistic language before his ‘auto-destructive’ period

  • Young Bomberg and the Old Masters

    This disappointingly limited exhibition does little to uphold the promised insight into the influence of the old masters on Bomberg’s work

  • Architecture of London

    With works from the 17th century to the present day, this impressive exhibition views the changing nature of London’s rich and varied architecture through the eyes of artists across the years

  • Leon Kossoff: A London Life

    A career-spanning exhibition of the London artist confirms his status as the quintessential painter of the capital’s inner peripheries

  • Reflections on the Self: From Dürer to Struth

    This exhibition explores the genre of the self-portrait, looking at the ways in which more than 50 artists from the 1400s onwards have sought to visualise the self

  • The Mystery of Appearance: Conversations Between Ten British Post-War Painters

    The phrase “School of London” has frequently been applied to the artists showcased in Haunch of Venison’s latest exhibition, Mystery of Appearance, ever since R B Kitaj first used the term in relation to post-war British painting in 1976. Yet…

  • Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting

    The National Gallery, London 14 March-1 July 2007