Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting, a major touring retrospective of paintings by British artist Leon Kossoff (1926 – 2019) will open at Annely Juda Fine Art (London) in September 2021 and travel to Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York) and L.A. Louver (Venice, CA) in early 2022. Comprising 58 works, this touring show will be the first posthumous and largest exhibition of Kossoff’s paintings in a commercial setting to date, and coincides with the publication of Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings to be released in September 2021 by Modern Art Press. The exhibition is curated by Andrea Rose, former Director of Visual Arts at the British Council and editor of the catalogue raisonné.
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Co-published by Annely Juda Fine Art, London, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, and L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, in conjunction with the traveling exhibition Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting. The exhibition coincides with the release of Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings by Modern Art Press.
The first comprehensive book on the oeuvre of one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century, Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings brings together the whole of Kossoff’s oil paintings for the first time, reproducing almost all of them in high-quality color images on a grand scale.
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Cathy [No. 3], 1998 /
oil on board /
16 3/4 x 24 3/4 in. (42.5 x 62.9 cm)](/html/gallery-history-images/small/Leon-Kossoff-Cathy-No-3_1998_LK99-208.jpg)
