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Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting
14 March - 1 July 2007
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

A 112-page, fully illustrated catalogue, with texts by Colin Wiggins, Juliet Wilson-Bareau
and Philip Conisbee, has been published on the occasion of this exhibition.

 

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

 
 

Selected articles
 
Campbell, Peter. "At the National Gallery."
London Review of Books. 18 May 2007, Vol. 29 No. 9

click to read the full article

Sinclair, Iain. "London calling."
Guardian Unlimited Books, 10 March 2007.
click to read the full article

Campbell - Johnston, Rachel. "Pencils on the Past."
The Times [London]. 14 March 2007, p.17.

Darwent, Charles. "New Life for Old Masters."
Sunday Independent [London]. 8 April 2007, p. 13.

Glover, Michael. "Forever a Student of Old Masters."
Financial Times [London]. 28 March 2007, p.13.

Hensher, Philip. "Hits as Big as This are Never Flukes."
Mail on Sunday [London]. 18 March 2007, p.75.

click for the Leon Kossoff artist profile

 
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From Titian: Venus and Adonis
 
 
Christchurch Spitalfields
 
 
From Rembrandt: Ecce Homo
 
 
From Velázquez:
Don Sebastián de Morra
 
 
From Velázquez:
Francisco Lezcano
 
 
From Poussin: The Triumph of Pan
 

From Titian: The Flaying of Marsyas
 

From Veronese:
The Consecration of Saint Nicholas
 
 
From Veronese:
The Consecration of Saint Nicholas
 
 
From Veronese:
The Consecration of Saint Nicholas
 
 
From Veronese:
The Adoration of the Kings
 
 
From Veronese:
The Adoration of the Kings
 
 
From Veronese:
The Adoration of the Kings
 
 
From Veronese:
Allegory of Love, II (‘Scorn’)
 
  
From Veronese:
Allegory of Love, IV
(‘Happy Union’)
 
 
From Veronese:
Minerva protects Pax from Mars
 
 
From Veronese:
Minerva protects Pax from Mars
 
 
From Veronese:
The Judgement of Paris
 
 
From Veronese:
The Judgement of Paris
 
 
From Rembrandt:
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
 
 
From Rembrandt:
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
 
 
From Rembrandt: Portrait of Margaretha de Geer
 
 
From Rembrandt: Portrait of Margaretha de Geer
 
 
From Rembrandt: Ecce Homo
 
 
From Rembrandt: Ecce Homo
 
 
From Rembrandt: A Woman bathing in a Stream
 
 
From Constable: Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
 
 
From Constable: Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
 
 
From Constable: Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
 
 
From Degas: Combing the Hair
(‘La Coiffure’)
 
 
From Degas: Hélène Rouart in her Father’s Study
 
 
From Cézanne: The Temptation of Saint Anthony
 
 
From Rembrandt: The Blinding of Samson
 
 
From Cézanne:
Christ in Limbo
 
 
From Constable: Stoke-by-Nayland
 
 
From Constable: Stoke-by-Nayland
 
 
From Velázquez: Christ after the Flagellation,
contemplated by the Christian Soul
 
 
From Goya: Sketch for Summer or Harvesting
 
 
From Goya: Sketch for Summer or Harvesting
 
 
From Goya: The Hermitage at San Isidro
 
 
From Goya: The Meadow of San Isidro
 
 
From Goya: Making Shot in the Sierra de Tardienta
 
 
From Goya: Making Powder in the Sierra de Tardienta
 
 
From Goya: Procession of Flagellants
 
  
From Goya: ‘Auto de Fe’ of the Inquisition
 
 
From Goya: Bullfight in a Village
 
 
From Goya: The Madhouse
 
 
From Poussin: A Bacchanalian Revel before a Term
 
 
From Poussin: Cephalus and Aurora
 
 
From Poussin: The Triumph of Pan
 
 
From Poussin: The Destruction and the Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem
 
 
From Poussin: The Destruction and the Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem
 
 
From Poussin: The Rape of the Sabines
 
 
From Poussin: The Judgement of Solomon
 
 
From Poussin: A Bacchanalian Revel before a Term
 
 
From Poussin: Landscape with a Man killed by a Snake
 
 
From Poussin: Landscape with a Man killed by a Snake