Leon kossoff artist biography

A marvellous piece of book production, perfect in every way and – clearly – the result of extreme devotion. It will secure Leon’s place in the canon of English painting. Frank Auerbach

Leon Kossoff:CatalogueRaisonnéof the Oil Paintingsis the only comprehensive book on the oeuvre of one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century.

Having curated exhibitions and written aboutKossoff’swork from the 1980s onwards, Andrea Rose, the author, and Andrew Dempsey, who led the research, both knew the artist and his work for many years before embarking on the project in 2013.They were given unprecedented access to him, his archives and his studio, and since his death have had the full support of his familyand also his dealers.

Thecatalogue raisonnébrings together the whole of Kossoff’s oil paintings for the first time, reproducing almost all of them in high-quality colour images on a grand scale. Accompanying commentary brings new insight into the