Pauline Asleep on a Large Pillow

Location

Country: Germany
City: Berlin
Place: British Embassy

Leon Kossoff was born to Russian Jewish parents in Islington, north London. In 1936, aged ten, Kossoff visited the National Gallery and was awestruck. He served in the army from 1945 to 1948. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art, attending evening classes under David Bomberg from 1948 to 1953 and completed his training at the Royal College of Art three years later. His work has been widely exhibited in Britain, Germany, the United States and China. He represented Britain at the 1995 Venice Biennale, his work touring to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. A major retrospective was held at the Tate Gallery in 1996 and an exhibition of his drawings made in response to paintings in the National Gallery, London, was held there in 2007.

Places

Subjects

rest/sleep, genre, woman, nude, domestic interior, pillow

Materials & Techniques

board, oil, oil painting

Artist

Leon Kossoff (1926 - 2019)

Title

Pauline Asleep on a Large Pillow

Date

1977

Medium

Oil on board

Dimensions

height: 55.00 cm, width: 51.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Fischer Fine Art, November 1978

Inscription

none

GAC number

14300