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Looking and Experiencing:

A Tribute to Leon Kossoff (1926 – 2019)

Ben Uri Gallery and Museum (19 September – 18 October 2019)

BURU (the Ben Uri Research Unit for the study of the Jewish and immigrant contribution to the visual arts in Britain since 1900) is proud to present Looking and Experiencing: A Tribute to Leon Kossoff, marking the artist’s sad recent passing and paying tribute to his considerable achievements as one of Britain’s finest post-war figurative painters.

Leon Kossoff, Study for Copy of 'Cephalus and Aurora' by Poussin No. 2, 1976
Swindon Museum & Art Gallery © The Estate of Leon Kossoff

Looking and Experiencing: A Tribute to Leon Kossoff features paintings, drawings and etchings representing the artist’s major themes and motifs spanning his long career, including portraiture (particularly of his family and close circle), the urban – particularly the railway – landscape of London, responses to the old masters, and the nude. Works have been drawn from both public collections including the Schlee Collection, Southampton; and Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, as well as Ben Uri’s own collection, and selected important private collections. Kossoff’s enduring engagement with the old masters, in general, and Poussin, in particular, is represented by his response to Poussin’s Cephalus and Aurora (c. 1603, National Gallery), of which he commented on the 'difference between looking and experiencing. Paintings of this quality, in which the subject is endlessly glowing with luminosity, can, in an unexpected moment, surprise the viewer, revealing unexplored areas of self’* - a description which can be applied equally to Kossoff's own work.

A support display also includes works by Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, Albrecht Dürer, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj, John Lessore, Rembrandt and Chaïm Soutine.

Curated by Sarah MacDougall, Head of BURU and Ben Uri Collection.

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Open: Weekdays, 19 September - 18 October, 10 a.m. – 5.30 p.m. and Wednesdays late until 8 p.m.

Entry: £5 (concessions £4, free to Art Fund members and Ben Uri Friends)


Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, 108A Boundary Road, St John’s Wood, London NW8 0RH

For further information: please contact Sarah MacDougall on Sarahm@benuri.org

For images: please contact Evgeniya Marder on Evgeniyam@benuri.org

*Richard Kendall, Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff Drawings and Prints After Nicolas Poussin, London 2000, p.10

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