At Frieze Los Angeles 2022, L.A. Louver will make a powerful presentation of important paintings and drawings by the artist Leon Kossoff. This will be a unique chance to experience works by one of Britain’s most celebrated postwar artists, many of which have been hidden in prestigious Los Angeles collections for decades. These significant works are returning to the market at a moment when the artist’s oeuvre has come into celebratory focus via the publication of a catalogue raisonné and a traveling retrospective exhibition. Created over a lifetime of close observation and a career spanning over sixty years, Kossoff’s thickly layered impasto captures the evolving landscape of his beloved London, as well as the changing visages of loyal friends, family and sitters. Towering construction sites, pedestrian streets and Underground stations are rendered as fondly as portraits of those near and dear to the artist. The retrospective exhibition Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting will be on view at L.A. Louver’s Venice Beach gallery during the run of the fair.
