Leon Kossoff
Selected Paintings 1956 - 2000
Museum of Art Lucerne
30 April – 24 July 2005
www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch

Travelled from:
Louisiana Museum of Art
19 November 2004 - 28 March 2005
www.louisiana.dk

A 64 page, hard-bound, full-color catalogue, with an interview with Per Kirkeby about Leon Kossoff,
by Poul Erik Tøjner and an essay by Anders Kold, is available.

Selected article
 
Richard Wollheim. "Learning from Poussin. From a conversation with Leon Kossoff at his London studio."
Art on View, Autumn, p. 39 - 48, 2001.
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full biography

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Recent exhibitions

Art 41 Basel
16 - 20 June 2010
Messe Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Hall 2.0 / Stand D13
 
 
Leon Kossoff: From the Early Years 1957 - 1967
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Chelsea
1018 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10075
12 February - 28 March 2009
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Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting
14 March - 1 July 2007
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
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Selected videos

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.
www.channel4.com

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.
click here to view the video

Publications

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

Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff Drawings and Prints After Nicolas Poussin
Published by Merrell Publishers, in collaboration with L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 2000

Leon Kossoff
Annely Juda / Mitchell-Innes & Nash catalogue
Co-published by Annely Juda Fine Art, London;
and Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York, 2000

Leon Kossoff: Tate Retrospective catalogue
Published by the order of the Trustees 1996 for the exhibition at the Tate Gallery
6 June - 1 September 1996

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

Limited editions

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