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Leon Kossoff

Biography

LEON KOSSOFF


Born 1926; London
Lives and works in London

St. Martin's School of Art, London
Royal College of Art, London


Solo Exhibitions:

2009
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, From the Early Years: 1957- 1967
2008
London, Art Space Gallery, Leon Kossoff: Unique Prints of Paintings
from the National Gallery
2007
London, National Gallery of Art, Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting
2004-5 Louisiana Museum, of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Museum of Art, Lucerne, Leon Kossoff: Selected Paintings 1956 – 2000
2002
Pillsbury Fine Art, Dallas, Leon Kossoff: Drawn to Painting, Poussin, Rubens and Other Subjects
2001-0
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff-Drawings and Prints after Nicholas Poussin
2000
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Poussin Landscapes by Kossoff
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; Annely Juda Fine Art, London, Leon Kossoff
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, After Nicolas Poussin: New Etchings by Leon Kossoff
1996
Tate Gallery. London; Leon Kossoff
1995-6 XLVI Venice Biennale, Venice; Kunstverein, Düsseldorf; Stedelijk Musuem, Amsterdam, Leon Kossoff
1993
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London; LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, Leon Kossoff: Drawings 1985-1992
1988-9
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London; Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings
1984
Fischer Fine Art, London; LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, Leon Kossoff: Recent Work
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, Leon Kossoff: Recent Drawings and Etchings
1983
Hirschl & Alder Modern, New York, Leon Kossoff
1982
LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, Leon Kossoff Paintings
1981
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Leon Kossoff: Paintings from a Decade 1970-1980
1980
Riverside Studio, London, Leon Kossoff: Recent Drawings at Riverside
1979
Fischer Fine Art, London, Leon Kossoff: Paintings and Drawings 1974-1979
1975
Fischer Fine Art, London, Leon Kossoff at Fischer Fine Art
1974
Fischer Fine Art, London, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings and Drawings
1973
Fischer Fine Art, London, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings and Drawings
1972
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings
1968
Marlborough Fine Art, London, Leon Kossoff
1964
Beaux Arts Gallery, London, Leon Kossoff
1963
Beaux Arts Gallery, London, Leon Kossoff
1961
Beaux Arts Gallery, London, Leon Kossoff
1959
Beaux Arts Gallery, London, Leon Kossoff
1957
Beaux Arts Gallery, London, Leon Kossoff

Group Exhibitions:

2008
Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, A Guest of Honor: From Francis Bacon
to Peter Doig
2007-8
Ghent, Belgium, British Vision: Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950
2007
Madrid, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza and Fundacion Caja Madrid, and
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Mirro and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso
2006
Bristol, City Museum and Art Gallery; Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery and London, National Gallery, Passion for Paint
London, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., British Art: A Post-War Selection
New York, Cheim and Read, The New Landscape/the New Still Life: Soutine and His Legacy 1950-2006
2005-6
National Portrait Gallery, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Self-Portraits 1500-2000
2000
National Gallery, London, Close Encounters: New From Old
Museum of Art, Mexico City (British Council in association with the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes); Musuem of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico, La Mirada fuerte: pintura figurative de Londres
1998-9
Foundation Dina Vierny/Musee Maillol, Paris; Auditorio de Gallicia, Santiago de Compostella; Kunsthaus, Vienna, L'Ecole Des Londres de Bacon a Bevan
1995-6
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Musee de l'Etat-Staatsmuseum, Luxembourg; Musee Cantonal de Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Fundacio Caixa de Catalunya, Barcelona. From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj
1995
XLVI Venice International Biennale, Museo Correr, Palzzo Grassi and Giardini di Castello, Venice, Identity and Alterity: Figures of the Body 1895-1995
1994
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, Dobbel Virkelighet / Double Reality
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam; Visual Excitement: In Defense of Painting
Theo Waddlington Fine Art, London; Helen Lessore: Artists and Art Dealer
McClellan Galleries, Glasgow; Royal College of Art, London; An American Passion: The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D. Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting
1993-4
Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston, Ipswich, Bath, & Brighton, Drawing on these Shores: A View of British Drawing and Its Affinities
1993
Marlborough Fine Art, London; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Seven British Painters: Selected Masters of Post-War British Art: Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff
1992
British Council, Israel Museum, Jerusalem; British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century
1991-2
Hayward Gallery, London, The Contemporary Art Society: Eighty Years of Collecting
1991
Crane Gallery, London; Affinities in Paint
Tate Gallery Collections Exhibition, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Transformation of Appearance: Andrews, Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Kossoff
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Da Bacon a Oggi: l'Outsider nella Figurazione Britannica/From Bacon to Now: The outsider in British Configuration
1990
City Art Gallery, Manchester; London; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Glasgow City Art Gallery, Glasgow, The Pursuit of the Real: British Figurative Painting from Sickert to Bacon
Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries, McClellan Galleries, Glasgow, Glasgow's Great British Art Exhibition
Beaux Arts, Bath, Tribute to Peter Fuller
Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York; The British Imagination: Twentieth-Century Painting, Sculpture, and Drawing
1989
Odette Gilbert Gallery, London, School of London: Works on Paper
Saatchi Collection, London, Leon Kossoff/Bill Woodrow
British Council, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Picturing People: British Figurative Art since 1945
1988
Arts Council of Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery, Past and Present
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, The British Picture
Royal College of Art, London, Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art
Heine Haus, Hamburg, Die Spur des Anderen: Funk judische Kunstler aus London mit funf destschen Kunstlern aus Hamburg im Dialog, R.B. Kitaj, Frank Auerbach, Sandra Fischer, Leon Kossoff, Lucian Freud, Jurgen Bordanowicz, Christoph Kramer, Florian Kohler, Jurgen Hockauf, Gustaf Klauge
1987-8
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, British Figurative Painting
1987
Royal Academy of Arts, London; British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Mucsarnok, Budapest, Narodni Galerie, Prague; Zacheta, Warsaw; Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Ca'Pesaro, Venice; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, A School of London: Six Figurative Painters
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London; Works on Paper
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Art of our Time: The Saatchi Collection
South Bank Centre, Lonodn Past and Present: Contemporary Artists Drawings from the Masters
University Art Gallery, California State University, San Bernadino, CA; Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA; University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University; Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA; British Figurative Drawing: A Matter of Paint. David Bomberg, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, John Lessore, Kevin Sinott, Simon Edmonson
Arts Council of Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery; Birmingham, Hull, Nottingham, and Norwich; Past and Present: Contemporary Artists Drawing from the Masters
1985
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Milton Keynes, Southport; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Barnsley and London; A Singular Vision: Paintings of the Figure by Contemporary Artists
British Council, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; The British Show
Norwich School of Art Gallery, Norwich; Rocks and Flesh: An Argument for British Drawing
Cornerhouse, Manchester; Human Interest: Fifty Years of British Art about People
1984
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Norwich, Coventry, and London, The Forgotten Fifties
Tate Gallery, London; The Hard-Won Image: Traditional Method and Subject in Recent British Art
British Council, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Jehangir Nicholson Musuem of Modern Art, National Centre for Performing Arts, Bombay, The Proper Study: Contemporary Figurative Paintings from Britain
Arts Council of Great Britain, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Edinburgh, Sheffield, and Southampton; The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979-1984
1982
British Council, China Art Gallery, Peking; Art Gallery and Shenyang Hans Kous Museum of Art, Hong Kong, British Drawings and Watercolors 1950 to Present Day
The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; British Watercolors and Drawings from Rowlandson to Riley
1981
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT; Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Eight Figurative Painters: Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, Patrick George, Leon Kossoff, Euan Uglow
Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen; Mannheim and Braunschweig; 13 Britische Kunstler: Eien Ausstellung uber Malerei / 13 British Artists: A Painting Exhibition
1980
Musee Rath, Geneva; Art Anglais d'aujourd'hui: Collection de la Tate Gallery, Londres
Arts Council of Great Britain, touring exhibition; From Object to Object
1979
Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London; The Hayward Annual: Current British Art selected by Helen Chadwick, Paul Gopal Choudhury, James Faure Walker, John Hilliard and Nicholas Pope
Arts Council of Great Britain, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; A Cold Wind Brushing the Temple: an Exhibition of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture purchased by George Melly for the Arts Council Collection
1978
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Swansea, Belfast, Liverpool, Aberdeen, Rochdale; Drawing in Action- An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing
1977
Royal Academy of Arts, London; British Painting 1952-1977
1976
Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London; Human Clay: an Exhibition selected by R.B. Kitaj
1975
Arts Council of Great Britain, touring; Drawings of People: An Exhibition of Drawings selected for the Arts Council by Patrick George
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Body and Soul
1974
Arts Council of Great Britain; British Painting '74
1972
Fischer Fine Art, London; English Explorations: an Exhibition of Recent Works by Seven Artists living and working in London
1968
Marlborough Fine Arts, London; Helen Lessore and the Beaux Arts Gallery
1967
Tate Gallery, London; Recent British Paintings: Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection
1966
Hampstead Arts Centre, London; Survey 66: Figurative Painting
1964
Tate Gallery, London; Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 54-64
1963
Tate Gallery/Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; British Painting in the Sixties: an exhibition organized by the Contemporary Art Society


Bibliography:

2007
Conissbee, Philip, Colin Wiggins, and Juliet Wilson - Bareau. Leon
Kossoff : Drawing from Painting (exhibition catalogue). London:
National Gallery, March 2007
2004
Holm, Michael Juul and Anders Kold, eds. "Leon Kossoff:
Selected Paintings 1956-2000," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Humlebaek, 2004
2001
Heathcote, Ph.D., Christopher, "Bliss in the Here and Now,"
Art & Australia, 2001, p. 534-535
McDonald, John, "The Delight is in the Detail," The Sydney
Morning Herald, Saturday, March 24, 2001, Spectrum Section,
p. 12-13
Auty, Giles, "Bedrock of Continuity," The Weekend Australian,
March 31-April 1, 2001, Arts Section, R21
2000
Richard Kendall, Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff-Drawings and Prints after Nicolas Poussin, London; Merrell
1995
Sophie Bowness and Clive Phillpot, Britain at the Venice Biennale 1895-1995, London: The British Council, p. 142-143
Christopher Knight, Last Chance for Eden: Selected Art Criticism by Christopher Knight 1979-1994, Los Angeles: Art issues.
1990
Dan Hofstadter, Temperaments: Artists Facing their Work, New York: A.A. Knopf, p. 123-168
Robert Hughes, Frank Auerbach, London: Thames and Hudson, p. 28-31, 82-83
Robert Hughes, Nothing if Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists, London: Collins Harvill, and New York, A.A. Knopf, p. 343-345
1989
Alistair Hicks, New British Art of the Saatchi Collection, London: Thames and Hudson, p. 11-13, p. 60-71
Alistair Hicks, The Resurgence of Contemporary Painting, Oxford: Phaidon, p. 40-46
1988
Paul Huxley (ed.), Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art, London: Phaidon in association with Christies and The Royal College of Art, chapter on 'The Beaux Arts Years, 1948-57' by Lynda Morris, p. 31-39
1987
Richard Cork, David Bomberg, London: Yale University Press, p. 288, 290, 297, 320
1986
Helen Lessore, A Partial Treatment: Essays on some Moderns in the Great Tradition, London: The Tate Gallery, p. 144-154
1984
Lynne Cooke, Art of our Time: The Saatchi Collection (Vol. 4), London: Lund Humphries and New York, Rizzoli, p. 36-37
1980
Peter Fuller, Beyond the Crisis in Art, London: Writers and Readers, p. 149-155 (first published in Art Monthly, May 1979)

Bibliography
2000
'Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff's Drawings and Prints after Nicolas Poussin,' Journal of the Print World, Inc. Volume 23, Winter
'Venice Calendar of Events,' Venice Magazine, January/February
Suzanne Muchnic,'Cooperation Becomes Key to L.A. Scene,' LA Times, 9 January
John Farrell, 'Leon Kossoff Drawn to Painting,' San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune, 14 January
'Best Bets,' LA Times/Weekend Calendar, 16-22 January
Lawrence Van Gelder, 'Art to Art,' The New York Times, 19 January
Hunter Drohojowska-Philip, 'Through an Artist's Eyes,' LA Times, 22 January
Daniella Walsh, 'New Meaning for an Old Master,' Times, 26 January, Orange County Register, 30 January
Christopher Knight, 'Kossoff, for His Conoisseurs Only,' LA Times, 26 January
'Attached: Poussin and Kossoff,' Where/LA Times, February
1999
Antony Thorncroft, 'Blockbuster in a Frame,' Financial Times, 21/22 February
Richard Kendall, 'Kossoff, Poussain, and Drawing: the Anarchic and the Purposeful,' The British Art Journal, Autumn
Jeremy Rosenberg, 'L.A. Diary,' Art and Auction, 15 November
1996
Nicky Charlish, 'Maybe it's Because He's a Londoner,' Midweek, 1-4 January
David Bowie, 'David Bowie on the Leon Kossoff Retrospective at the Tate,' Evening Standard, 31 May
Clare Randall, 'Leon Kossoff,' Contemporary Art, Summer
'Review of Reviews, Leon Kossoff,' PR Planner no. 73
James Hyman, 'Leon Kossoff and Christ Church Spitalfields,' Spitalfields Festival, Summer
James Hyman, 'Kossoff's London,' Tate Magazine, Summer
Martin Gayford, 'Hats off to Kossoff,' Modern Painters, Summer
Roger Bevan, 'A Tortoise Obsessed with Oily Stuff?' Art Newspaper, June
Bernard Bruce, 'Never Tired of London,'The Times, 1 June
John Berger, The Guardian, 1 June
Frank Whitford, 'The Figures all add up at Last,' The Sunday times, 2 June
Sarah Jane Checkland, 'Lashings and Lashings of Real London,' Evening Standard, 3 June
Ian Sinclair, 'Kossoff: Reluctant Urban Visionary,' The Independent, 4 June
Martin Gayford, 'A Modern Master's London Chronicles,' The Daily Telegraph, 5 June
Paul Levy, 'Summer Art Offerings all over London,' The Wall Street Journal, 7 June
Waldemar Januszczak, 'A Truly Great Depression,' The Sunday Times, 9 June
William Feaver, 'Lay it on Thick,' The Observer, 9 June
Adrian Searle, 'Paint it Black and Bleak,' The Guardian, 11 June
Brian Sewell, 'Mysteries at Millbank,' Evening Standard, 13 June
Julia Weiner, 'The Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,' Jewish Chronicle, 14 June
William Packer, 'A Talent of his Own,' Financial Times, 15/16 June
Tim Hilton, 'Paint the Town Blue,' The Independent, 16 June
Richard Cork, 'Reporter of the Times of London,' The Times, 18 June
John McEwen, 'Pile the Paint on Thick, then Pile on Some More,' The Sunday Telegraph, 23 June
Adam Coulter, 'Local Scenes on Display at the Tate,' Kilburn Times, 27 June
Patrick Reytiens, 'Galleries,' The Tablet, 29 June
Martin Coomer, 'Inner-City Life,' Time Out, 10-17 July
Jeff Sawtell, 'Just Existential Excretionism?' Morning Star, 26 July
Rosanna Negrotti, 'Leon Kossoff, Tate Gallery,' What's on in London, 24-31 July
Estelle Lovatt, 'Leon Kossoff,' Southern Cross, 7 August
David Sylvester, 'Kossoff Unculled,' 16 August
Richard Shone, 'Leon Kossoff,' Artforum, September
Richard Kendall, 'Leon kossoff,' Burlington Magazine, September
William Feaver, 'Leon Kossoff,' Artnews, October
1995
Geraldine Norman, 'Turning the Tide in Venice,' The Independent on Sunday, 12 March
Richard Cork, 'City of the Heart,' the Times Magazine, 27 May
Martin Gayford, 'Everything Changes,' The Sunday Telegraph, 28 May
Michael Peppiat, 'A School or not a School,' Modern Painters, Summer
Martin Gayford, 'The Crisis of Vision,' Modern Painters, Summer
David Sylvester, 'Against the Odds,' Modern Painters, Summer
Roger Bevan, 'What the Brits are bringing to Venice,' Art Newspaper, June
David Lister, 'Young Brits Scandalise the Biennale Establishment,' The Independent, 10 June
Andrew Graham-Dixon, 'Some take the Venice Biennale very seriously indeed; others regard it as the Eurovision Song Contest of Art,' The Independent, 13 June
William Packer, 'A Strong British Presence in Venice,' Financial Times, 13 June
Richard Cork, 'Mourning a Little Death in Venice,' The Times, 14 June
Richard Dorment, 'The Pluck of the British,' The Daily Telegraph, 14 June
Martin Gayford, 'Not even one Canaletto,' The Spectator, 17 June
William Feaver, 'Dearth in Venice,' The Observer, 18 June
Waldemar Januszczak, 'Missing the Boat in Venice,' The Sunday Times, 18 June
John McEwen, 'A Hundred Years of the Duff Stuff,' The Sunday Telegraph, 18 June
"First Impressions: Capital Gains in Venice,' The Jewish Chronicle, 23 June
Lila Rawlings, 'London Calling,' The List, 30 June
Duncan Macmillan, 'London Calling, The Scotsman, 3 July
William Feaver, 'In a Class of their Own,' Sunday Observer, 9 July
W. Gordon Smith, 'London Calling,' Scotland on Sunday, 9 July
Rachel Barnes, 'A Range of Loners,' The Guardian, 11 July
Richard Cork, 'Capital Deposit North of the Border,' The Times, 11 July
Clare Henry, 'Magical Lure of the Lonely Herd,' The Herald (Glasgow), 24 July
Martin Gayford, 'Capital Assets,' The Telegraph, 26 July
Michael Archer, 'Home and Away, Art Monthly, July-August
Frank Whitford, 'Unofficial Openings,' the Sunday Times, 20 August
William Packer, 'The London Six go North to Scotland,' Financial Times, 26 August
'Biennale Venedig,: Grossbritannien,' Kunstforum, August-October
David Sylvester, 'Afterthoughts on Kossoff in Venice,' Modern Painters, Autumn
Jed Pearl, 'London Grit,' The New Republic, 4 September
'Agitate,' Tate Magazine, Issue 7, Winter
David Cohen, 'Kossoff's Doubt,' Art in America, December
Richard Ingelby, 'A Bright Star in Eclipse,' Art Review, December/January
Heinz-Norbert Jocks, 'Leon Kossoff, Werke 1985- 1994,' Presseubersicht, 10 December 1995-21 January 1996.
1994
Martin Gayford, 'The Human Figure at the Heart,' The Sunday Telegraph, 13 February
William Feaver, 'Leon Kossoff: Epiphany on Commercial Road,' Art News, Summer
Richard Calvocoressi, 'Auerbach, Andrews, and Kossoff—London Painters,' The Art Quarterly of the National Art Collections Fund, Autumn
1993
Wiliam Feaver, 'Off the Wall,' The Observer, 7 February
William Packer, 'Poetry in Painting,' Financial Times, 13 February
Martin Gayford, 'The Human Figure at the Heart,' The Sunday Telegraph, 13 February
Giles Auty, 'Spirit Worlds,' The Spectator, 20 February
James Hyman, 'Leon Kossoff,' Modern Painters, Spring
William Feaver, 'London: Leon Kossoff,' Art News, May
Kristine McKenna, 'Painting's Quiet Man,' LA Times, 13 May
James Hyman, 'The Prints of Leon Kossoff,' Print Quarterly, September
1991
Keith Patrick, 'The School of London,' AICARC: Bulletin of Archives and Documentation Centers for Modern and Contemporary Art
Warren Mitchell, 'Picture Choice: East End Wonderland,' The Independent, 12 March
Tony Warner, 'The Transformation of Appearance,' Arts Review, 18 October
Giuliano Serafini, 'Alienazione ora' (alienation now), Terzo Occhio, December
1990
Mary Rose Beaumont, 'London Reviews: Leon Kossoff and Bill Woodrow," Arts Review, 26 January
Hans Johanssom, 'Jakten pa det verkliga,' (The Pursuit of the Real), Paletten, Sweden
James Burr, 'Counting One's Losses,' Apollo, March
Max Rabino, 'I sei eremiti della scuola di Londra,' Arte, June
Dan Hofstadter, 'Annals of Art: Dungeon Masters,' New Yorker, 12 December
1989
Robert Mahoney, 'Leon Kossoff,' Arts Magazine, February
Alexandra Enders, 'In the Galleries: Leon Kossoff,' Art and Antiques, March
Jed Perl, 'Autumn Alphabet: Leon kossoff,' The New Criterion, March
Conor Joyce, 'Leon Kossoff,' Artscribe International, March/April
William Packer, 'Saatchi shows British,' Financial Times, 7 November
Richard Dorment, 'A Double Act from Saatchi,' The Daily Telegraph, 10 November
Mark Currah, 'Leon Kossoff, Bill Woodrow,' City Limits, 16-23 November
Peter Fuller, 'Beauty in the Muddy Riverbed: Peter Fuller on the Paintings of Leon Kossoff,' The Sunday Telegraph, 19 November
Andrew Brighton, 'Saatchi's Modern Savages: the Britishness of British Art is a Dead Dog,' The New Statesman and New Society, 24 November
1988
Isobel Johnstone, 'Some British Figurative Art,' Antique Collector, September
Robin Dutt, 'A Vision of the Everyday,' The Independent, 6 September
Brian Sewell, 'Lost in the Mud,' The Evening Standard, 8 September
Richard Dorment, 'Flying Arms and Violent Brushstrokes, Leon Kossoff,' The Daily Telegraph, 9 September
Catherine Lampert, 'Private Obsession,' The Independent (Magazine), 10 September
William Feaver, 'Just the Ticket,' The Observer, 11 September
Marina Vaizey, 'British Shows of Strength,' The Sunday Times, 11 September
William Packer, Figurative Painting Lives,' Financial Times, 13 September
Alistair Hicks, 'Odd Couple: Author Reviews Show Two Very Individual British Painters,' The Times, 13 September
Tim Hilton, 'Suburban Lives: Tim Hilton Explodes the Myths about a Survivor of the Fifties Avant-Garde,' The Guardian, 14 September
Sarah Kent, 'On Leon Kossoff,' Time Out, 14-21 September
Andrew Graham-Nixon, 'When the Sparks Fly: in his first interview for Many Years the Painter Leon Kossoff talks to Andrew Graham-Nixon About his Work,' The Independent, 16 September
Barry Fealdman, 'Kossoff's Sensitive Eye,' The Jewish Chronicle
Giles Auty, 'Their own Men,' The Spectator, 17 September
Mary-Rose Beaumont, 'Leon Kossoff,' Arts Review, 23 September
Michael Shepherd, 'Battleground for the Critics,' The Daily Telegraph, 25 September
Roger Bevan, 'Strength from Consistency,' Apollo, October
Richard Cork, 'Brood (sic) on the Track: the Hard-Won Epiphanies of Leon Kossoff,' The Listener, 6 October
Richard Shone, Leon Kossoff, The Burlington Magazine, November
Robert Hughes, 'A Tortoise obsessed with Oily Stuff: Painter Leon Kossoff Prevails a rich tradition,' Time Magazine, 14 November
Mel Gooding, 'Leon Kossoff, A Passionate Synthesis of Images,' Flash Art (International Edition), November/ December
William Feaver, 'Leon Kossoff,' Art News, December
Michael Archer, 'Leon Kossoff,' Artforum, December

1987
Michael Peppiat, 'Six New Masters (Why Stodgy Old London is now the Capital of the World,' The Connoisseur, September
Michael Peppiat, 'Could there be a School of London?' Art International, Autumn
1985
Robert L. Pincus-Witten, 'Leon Kossof,' Artforum, April
1984
Waldemar Januszczak, 'Leon Kossoff,' The Guardian, 21 March
Terence Mullaly, 'Poignant Passion,' The Daily Telegraph, 27 March
Graham Hughes, 'Leon Kossoff,' Arts Review, April
William Feaver, 'Sir Cedric's Zeal,' The Observer, 1 April
William Packer, 'Survivors in Private and Public View,' Financial Times, 3 April
Elizbeth Underhill, 'Outside Kilburn Underground by Leon Kossoff,' Print Quarterly, September
Richard Cork, 'The Forgotten Fifties,' The Burlington Magazine, November
Suzanne Muchnic, 'The Galleries, Venice,' Los Angeles Times, November
Hunter Drohojowska, 'Leon Kossoff at LA Louver Gallery,' LA Weekly, November/December
Colin Gardiner, 'To Bring out the Spirit,' Artweek, December
1983
Deborah C. Phillips, 'New Editions,' Artnews, April
John Russell, 'Leon Kossoff,' New York Times, 11 March
John Yau, 'Leon Kossoff,' Arts Magazine, May
1982
Jeffrey Weiss, 'Eight Figurative Painters,' Arts, February
Edward Lucie-Smith, 'Letter from the United Kingdom,' Art International, March/April
Renate Puvogel, '13 Britische Kunstler: Eine Austellung uber Malerei,' Kunstwerk, April
Christopher Knight, 'Artist with a sense of Urgency,' Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 16 May
Peter Clothier, 'Leon Kossoff at LA Louver,' Art in America, November
1981
Marina Vaizey, 'Portrait of a Man and his Times,' The Sunday Times, 4 January
John Russell Taylor, 'Forbidding yet Magical Build-up of Images, Leon Kossoff: Recent Drawings,' The Times, 6 January
Richard Cork, 'Art,' New Standard (London), 8 January
William Feaver,'Vehemence of a Scalp-Hunter,' The Observer, 11 January
William Packer, 'Three Expressionists,' Financial Times, 13 January
Paul Overy, 'Life and the life Room,' The Listener, 15 January
Mel Gooding, 'Leon Kossoff,' Arts Review, 16 January
Edward Lucie- Smith, 'London Letter- Leon Kossoff,' Art International, January-February
Geoffrey Eastop, 'Leon Kossoff- Painting, Peter Lanyon Drawings and Graphic Work,' Arts Review, June
William Feaver, 'Turner and the Sublime, Exhibitions in London and Oxford,' The Observer, 7 June
Frances Spalding, 'Hackney Meshes,' The Times Literary Supplement, 12 June
Terence Mullaly, 'Kossoff's Vision,' The Daily Telegraph
Paul Overy, 'The Passing Throng,' The Listener, 25 June
Michael McNay, 'Kossoff,' The Guardian, 25 June
John McEwen, 'Pot Pourri,' The Spectator, 11 July
Richard Shone, 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibtions,' Burlington Magazine, August
Peter Fuller, 'Visions from an E8 Landscape,' New Society, 13 August
1980
Marina Vaizey, 'Eight from England: Images that make Themselves,' Artnews, January
1979
Louise Collis, 'Leon Kossoff,' Art and Artists, April
James Burr, 'the Daemon of the Subconscious,' Apollo, May
Peter Fuller, 'Leon Kossoff,' Art Monthly, May
William Packer, 'Leon kossoff, Don Judd,' Financial Times, 22 May
Richard Shone, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions," The Burlington Magazine, June
Pierre Rouve, "Leon Kossoff,' Arts Review, 8 June
Edward Lucie-Smith, 'Hardy Annuals,' Art and Artists, September
Marina Vaizey, 'Leon Kossoff,' Art International, September
Peter Fuller, 'Hayward Annual 1979,' Artforum, October
Peter Fuller, 'Hayward Annual 1979,' Aspects (UK), Autumn
Robert L. Pincus-Witten, 'Contemporising the Figure: the Knot of Life,' Artweek, 15 December
1975
James Burr, 'Round the Galleries: High Grade of Polish,' Apollo, July
Peter Stone, 'Dalston in the Tate,' The Jewish Chronicle, 18 July
Terence Mullaly, 'Major Advances Displayed in Work of Two Artists,' The Daily Telegraph,' 21 July
Judy Marle, 'Maps of Experience,' The Guardian, 23 July
C. McCorquodale, 'Claude Rogers, Leon Kossoff,' Arts Review 25 July
William Packer, 'Claude Rogers and Leon Kossoff,' Financial Times, 5 August
1974
Oswell Blakeston, 'Leon Kossoff,' Arts Review, 25 January
James Burr, 'Round the Galleries: Marble is for Ever,' Apollo, January
Nigel Gosling, 'Small Worlds,' The Observer, 20 January
John Russell,'Point of View,' The Sunday Times, 20 January
Peter Stone, 'The Man who Paints Dalston,' The Jewish Chronicle, 25 January
Michael Shepherd, 'The Real Thing,' The Sunday Telegraph, 27 January
Marina Vaizey, 'Leon Kossoff,' Financial Times, 31 January
Paul Overy, 'Involvement goes Unrewarded,' The Times, 5 February
Marina Vaizey, 'Leon Kossoff,' The Connoisseur, March
Fenella Crichton, 'London Letter,' Art International, 20 March
Eddie Wolfram, 'Inscrutable Alchemy,' Art and Artist, April
Robert Melville, 'Gallery Celebrations,' Architectural Review, April
Charles Spencer, 'Five Anglo-Jewish Artists,' The Jewish Chronicle, 7 June
Marina Vaizey, 'British Painting '74: Off Focus,' Art News, December
1972
Marina Vaizey, 'Leon Kossoff,' Financial Times, 21 January
John Russell,' The Will to Survive,' The Times, 23 January
John Russell, 'Art,' The Times, 23 January
Nigel Gosling, 'Out of the Shadows,' The Observer, 23 January
Guy Brett, 'Art for Art's Sake: New Style,' The Times, 25 January
Richard Cork, 'Open House for Young Artists,' Evening Standard, 27 January
Peter Stone, 'Burst of Happiness,' The Jewish Chronicle, 28 January
P. Dyke, 'Leon Kossoff,' Arts Review, 29 January
Robert Melville, 'Sign Here,' New Statesman, 4 February
Evan Anthony, 'Art: Perking Up,' Spectator, 5 February
'Paint Revisited,' Country Life, 10 February
Peter Campbell, 'Leon Kossoff,' The Listener, 10 February
Richard Cork,' UK Commentary,' Studio International, March
Bernard Denvir, 'London Letter,' Art International, 20 March
William Feaver, 'London Letter,' Art International, 20 April
Eddie Wolfram, 'Look and See: Leon Kossoff,' Arts Review, 17 June
1970
William Feaver, 'Stranded Dinosaurs,' The London Magazine, July-August
1968
James Burr, 'London Galleries: Poetic Eloquence,' Apollo, April
Norbert Lynton, 'Wrestling with Realism,' The Guardian, 26 April
Peter Stone, 'Leon Kossoff acquires New Mastery,' The Jewish Chronicle, 3 May
Michael Ford, 'Reviews, Leon Kossoff,' Arts Review, 11 May
1966
Andrew Causey, 'Figurative Painters Find a New Home in Hampstead,' Illustrated London News, 7 May
1964
'Fifteen Years of Mr. Kossoff,' The Times, 30 April
James Burr, 'Round the London Galleries: Vertiginous Descent into Ourselves,'" Apollo, May
Robert Melville, 'The World of Art: Above Camoflauge,' The Sunday Times, 10 May
Edwin Mullins, 'Need they draw?', The Sunday Telegraph, 24 May
1963
'The Art of Mr. Leon Kossoff,' The Times, 22 February
Terence Mullaly, 'The Surging Paint of Kossoff: Maturing Talent in a London Show,' The Telegraph and Post, 25 February
Peter Stone, 'Two Notable Painters,' The Jewish Chronicle, 1 March
1962
John Rydon, 'The Young Ones,' Daily Express, 18 April
1961
Josef Herman, 'Leon Kossoff,' The Jewish Chronicle, October
Peter Stone, 'Austere Painter's Progress,' The Jewish Chronicle, 27 October
'Railway Pictures, Leon Kossoff,' Railway Review, 18 November
1959
Eric Newton, 'The World Seen as a Vale of Tears,' The Guardian, 11 September
F.G. Stone, 'Painter of Despair,' The Jewish Chronicle, 18 September
John Berger, 'The Weight,' New Statesman, 19 September
F.G. Stone, 'The Artist and the Community,' The Jewish Chronicle, 27 November
Robert Melville, 'Leon Kossoff,' Architectural Review, December
1957
'Sombre Earthly Colors,' The Jewish Chronicle, 25 February
Terrence Mullaly, 'Young Artist of Talent,' The Telegraph and Post, 30 September

Artist Exhibitions

Leon Kossoff - Recent Paintings and Drawings - April 11 - May 24, 2000
Leon Kossoff - From the Early Years 1957-1967 - February 17 - March 28, 2009

Artist Images

Seated Nude no. 1
1963
Oil on board
64 by 49 in. 162.6 by 124.5 cm.


Portrait of Mother Asleep
1963
Oil on board
63 1/2 by 49 1/2 in. 161.3 by 125.7 cm.


City Building Site
1961
Oil on board
48 1/2 by 73 1/4 in. 123.2 by 186.1 cm.


Father Seated in Armchair no. 2
1960
Oil on board
48 3/8 by 38 in. 122.9 by 96.5 cm.


Seated Woman
1959
Oil on board
53 3/8 by 36 3/4 in. 135.6 by 93.3 cm.


The Flower Stall, Embankment Station (Stormy Spring)
1994
Oil on board
53 by 56 in. 134.6 by 142.2 cm.


Cathy I
1997
Oil on board
19 1/4 by 24 1/4 in. 48.8 by 61.5 cm.


View of Hackney, Dalston Lane, Evening
1975
Oil on board
48 by 60 in. 121.9 by 152.4 cm.


Kings Cross, Summer
1998
Oil on board
72 1/4 by 76 1/8 in. 183.5 by 193.5 cm.


Summer in the Studio, Pilar and Jacinto II
1997
Oil on board
58 1/8 by 53 1/8 in. 147.6 by 134.9 cm.