Education:
1938-43
Attended Hackney Downs (Grocers) School, London
1939-43
Evacuated with school to King's Lynn, Norfolk
Lived with Mr and Mrs R.C. Bishop who encouraged his interest in art
Made first paintings
1943
Returned to London. Attended life drawing evening classes at Toynbee Hall and
St Martin's School of Art London
1943-45
Commercial Art Course at St Martin's School of Art, London
1945-48
Military Service with Royal Fusiliers, attached to 2nd Battalion Jewish
Brigade, served in Italy, Holland, Belgium, and Germany
1949-53
Studied at St Martin's School of Art and attended evening classes at
Borough Polytechnic, London, with David Bomberg (1950-52)
1953-56 Studied at Royal College of Art, London
Radical Figures:
Post-war British Figurative Painting
includes Leon Kossoff
Radical Figures: Post-war British Figurative Painting
includes Leon Kossoff
16 March 2013 - 16 March 2014
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester, UK
Leon Kossoff consented to a rare television interview with Nicholas Glass and Jon Snow for the UK's Channel 4 News program. Please click on the following link to watch the video, which features Kossoff discussing his newest paintings, describing the body of work he has created in response the Old Master works at the National Gallery, and taking the journalists on a tour of his most beloved paintings in the museum's collection.
National
Gallery educational video
Produced by the National Gallery, this educational video examines Leon Kossoff's "Drawing
from Painting" exhibition, and also follows the artist through his unique
print-making process. view the video
Publications
Leon Kossoff
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
25 February - 3 April 2010
Text by Lawrence Gowing
72 pages, 27 color illustrations
Hardback
Leon Kossoff: From the Early Years, 1957 - 1967
Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2010
17 February - 28 March 2009
Paint Made Flesh
Published by Vanderbilt University Press 2009 for the group exhibition that traveled to
First Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 23 January - 10 May 2009;
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 20 June - 13 September 2009;
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 24 October 2009 - 3 January 2010
Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting
Published by National Gallery Company, London
Includes text by Colin Wiggins, Juliet Wilson Bareau and Philip Consibee
14 March - 1 July 2007
Leon Kossoff : Recent paintings
British Pavilion,
XLVI Venice Biennale
Published by the British Council, London, 1995
Identity and Alterity: Figures of the Body
1895 - 1995
Exhibition catalogue for the XLVI Venice International Biennale
Published
by Marsilo, Venice, 1995
Leon Kossoff: Drawings 1985 to 1992
Co-published by Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London and L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
8 May - 5 June 1993
Leon Kossoff
Published by Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
9 September - 8 October 1988
Leon Kossoff: Recent Work
Co-published by L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; Fischer Fine Art, London; and Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
15 November - 15 December 1984
After
Nicolas Poussin A portfolio of 22 etchings; 14 images are an edition of 20,
and
8 images are varying editions of unique proofs.
1999
oil on board, 1965
73 x 49 in. (185.4 x 124.5 cm)
Tate, London
Image is available in Leon Kossoff by Paul Moorehouse, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1996, p. 59
oil on board, 1972
72 x 84 in.
(182.9 x 213.4 cm)
Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
Image is available in Leon Kossoff by Paul Moorehouse, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1996, p. 79
oil on board, 1995
72 x 80 in. (182.8 x 203.1 cm)
Tate, London
Image is available in Leon Kossoff by Paul Moorehouse, Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1996, p. 163
Building Site Near Saint Paul’s No. 2
Building Site Near Saint Paul’s No. 1
Head of Father
Head of Seedo
Seated Woman
Father Seated in an Armchair No. 2
City Building Site
Portrait of Philip II
Two Seated Figures
Woman Ill in Bed, Surrounded by Family
Portrait of Mother Asleep
Seated Nude No. 1
Self Portrait
YMCA Building Site No. 2
Willesden Junction, Summer No. 1
YMCA Building Site No. 1
Nude (Autumn Morning)
Children's Swimming Pool, Autumn
Red Brick School Building, Winter
Outside Kilburn Underground, Indian Summer: for Rosalind
A Street in Willesden, Early Summer
Peggy Resting No. 3
Head of Chaim
Portrait of John Lessore
Portrait of Anne II
Self Portrait with Christchurch
Christchurch, Winter Evening
Cathy
The Flower and Fruit Stalls, Embankment
Summer in the Studio, Pilar and Jacinto No.3
Christchurch
Nude
Installation photography, Leon Kossoff: Selected
Paintings 1956 - 2000, Museum of
Art Lucerne, 30 April – 24 July 2005 >>
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