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.

Richard Wollheim. "Learning from Poussin. From a conversation with Leon Kossoff at his London studio."
Art on View, Autumn, p. 39-48, 2001.
full article (PDF, 3.7 m)

 
full biography

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

Click for full exhibition page

Leon Kossoff artist profile

 

Publications
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

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

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

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

Recent Work
Co-published by L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; Fischer Fine Art, London; and Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
15 November – 15 December, 1984

 

 

 


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

 

Installation photography, Leon Kossoff:
Selected Paintings 1956-2000, Museum of Art Lucerne, 30 April – 24 July, 2005 >>