Kossoff
Britishnoun
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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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By now, Kossoff is among the most accomplished painters of the late 20th and early 21st century.
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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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One of Kossoff’s two small paintings based on Titian’s horrific “Apollo Flaying Marsyas,” for example, comes with an insightful appreciation by David Bowie, who once owned it.
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It also calls the combined shows “the largest most comprehensive exhibition” of Kossoff’s paintings ever staged in a commercial gallery, which seems an empty boast.
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