Springing to Life - Drawings by Leon Kossoff

Springing to Life a survey of an extraordinary body of drawings by Leon Kossoff curated by Andrea Rose, editor of the artist’s Catalogue Raisonné. Includes drawings from 1943 up to some of Kossoff’s last drawings of 2014, some of which have never been seen before. Acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest post war figurative painters, Kossoff’s paintings are recognisable by his heavily worked impasto paint surface and brushwork. Central to his practise was also a constant desire to draw and sketch from life. Whether in pencil, charcoal, pastel or crayon on paper his drawings show him to be a consummate draftsman capable of subtle delicacy as seen in the intimate sketches of his sleeping baby son to the vivid expansive marks used to capture scenes of industrial London.