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Leon Kossoff

Biography

Born 1926; London
Lives and works in London

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

Solo Exhibitions:

2004-5
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Museum of Art, Lucerne, Leon Kossoff: Selected Paintings 1956 - 2000

2002
Pillsbury Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Leon Kossoff: Drawn to Painting, Poussin, Rubens and Other Subjects
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Leon Kossoff

2000-1
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 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: Recent Paintings and Drawings
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, After Nicolas Poussin: New Etchings by Leon Kossoff

1996
Tate Gallery, London; Leon Kossoff

1995-6
XLVI International Biennale, Venice; Kunstverein, Düsseldorf; Stedelijk Museum, 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

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
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Leon Kossoff

1980
Riverside Studio, London, Leon Kossoff: Recent Drawings

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:

2005-6
National Portrait Gallery, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Self-Portraits 1500-2000

2000
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico, La Mirada fuerte: pintura figurative de Londres
National Gallery, London, Encounters: New Art From Old

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 International Biennale, Museo Correr, Palazzo Grassi and Giardini di Castello, Venice, Identity and Alterity: Figures of the Body 1895-1995

1994
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, 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
Marlborough Fine Art, London, 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
Wosley Art Gallery, Ipswich; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Drawing on these Shores: A View of British Drawing and Its Affinities

1992
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
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
National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Picturing People: British Figurative Art since 1945

1988
South Bank Centre, London; Manchester City Art Gallery; Birmingham, Hull, Nottingham, Past and Present: Contemporary Artists Drawings from the Masters
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, CA, British Figurative Painting

1987
Royal Academy of Arts, London, British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement
Anthony d’Offay, London, Works on Paper
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, Düsseldorf, 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
University Art Gallery, California State University, San Bernadino, CA; Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA; University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA; 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

1986
Tate Gallery, London, Forty Years of Modern Art

1985
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, A Singular Vision: Paintings of the Figure by Contemporary Artists
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney, 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
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
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979-1984

1982
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, 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, From Object to Object

1979-80
Mappin Art Gallery, The British Arts Show

1979
Hayward Gallery, London, The Hayward Annual: Current British Art selected by Helen Chadwick, Paul Gopal Choudhury, James Faure Walker, John Hilliard and Nicholas Pope
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
LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, This Knot of Life, Paintings and Drawings by British Artists

1978
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Drawing in Action - An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings

1977
Royal Academy of Arts, London, British Painting 1952-1977

1976
Hayward Gallery, London; Human Clay: an Exhibition selected by R.B. Kitaj

1975
Arts Council of Great Britain, 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 Art Centre, London, Survey 66: Figurative Painting

1964
Tate Gallery, London, Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 54-64

1963
Tate Gallery and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, British Painting in the Sixties: an exhibition organized by the Contemporary Art Society

Public Collections:

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Art Institute of Chicago
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Berado Museum, Lisbon
British Council, London
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
Chicago Art Institute
Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, MA
Cleveland Museum of Art
Contemporary Art Society, London
Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford
City Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester
Government Art Collection, London
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of London
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Rochdale Art Gallery, Lancashire
Rooseum Center for Contmporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
Rugby Museum, Warwickshire
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-Upon-Hull
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Wiltshire
Tate Gallery, London
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

Artist Exhibitions

Leon Kossoff - Recent Paintings and Drawings - April 11 - May 24, 2000

Artist Images

Building Site with St. Paul's
1957
Oil on board
48 7/16 by 63 in. 123 by 160 cm.


Cathy
1998
Oil on board
31 1/2 by 23 1/2 in. 80 by 59.5 cm.


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


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


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