Kossoff

/ ˈkɒsɒf /

noun

1. Leon. born 1926, British painter, esp of London scenes

Example Sentences

A new show by Auerbach is always significant: He is the last of a generation of British figurative painters that included Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff.

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The music of the English rock band Free seemed to follow him around; when King looked up the band’s lead guitarist, Paul Kossoff, he discovered that he’d died — of a pulmonary embolism, after years of drug use — when he was 25.

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The great thing about Kossoff’s paintings is the ultimate accuracy of their portrayals, in the psychic and physical sense.

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It is telling that the only still life in the entire catalogue raisonné is from the early 1950s, when Kossoff was just getting started.

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Kossoff’s greatness lies in the extreme way he pits the two basic realities of painting — the actual paint surface and the image depicted — against each another.

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