Leon Kossoff 1926-2019
Two Seated Figures, 1982
etching on paper
40 x 37 cm
signed (lower right) 'L Kossoff 82', inscribed '2/75 'Two Seated Figures' for Joseph Leftwich on his 90th Birthday'
1987-186
© The Estate of Leon Kossoff
Photo: Bridgeman images
This touching etching takes the artist's parents, Russian-Jewish immigrants to London's East End, as its subject and is closely related to a painting of the same name in the Tate...
This touching etching takes the artist's parents, Russian-Jewish immigrants to London's East End, as its subject and is closely related to a painting of the same name in the Tate collection. Kossoff has depicted his mother and father separately in numerous paintings and drawings. Etching is an important part of his practice and includes a series produced in response to - and directly in front of - Old Master paintings, revealing the artist's strong sense of artistic tradition, often including different versions of a single painting by artists including Poussin, Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt, reworked in his own individualistic, expressionistic and linear style.
Provenance
presented by the artist in 1982Exhibitions
Sarah MacDougall ed., Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2012) p. 42;Walter Schwab and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 61.
Literature
Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 61.1
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