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Lot Essay
We are very grateful to Andrea Rose for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
In the present work Leon Kossoff captures the view from the Dalston Lane studio which he occupied between 1972 and 1975. In one direction he could see Dalston Junction and its busy market, and in the other, the German Hospital. The train line occupies the centre of the composition, and the noise and activity of Kossoff’s urban subject matter is reflected in his vigorous and energetic depiction of it. Kossoff said, ‘The London of my memory is not the real city I live in today … though changing all the time, its particular location – the river, the hills, the proximity to the sea – seems always present, and the millions of people who have spent their lives passing through its streets and travelling along its underground veins make London, like my studio, a place of chaos, providing an opportunity for continual involvement and activity’ (Leon Kossoff quoted in exhibition catalogue, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings, Venice, XLVI Venice Biennale, 1995, p. 10).
In the present work Leon Kossoff captures the view from the Dalston Lane studio which he occupied between 1972 and 1975. In one direction he could see Dalston Junction and its busy market, and in the other, the German Hospital. The train line occupies the centre of the composition, and the noise and activity of Kossoff’s urban subject matter is reflected in his vigorous and energetic depiction of it. Kossoff said, ‘The London of my memory is not the real city I live in today … though changing all the time, its particular location – the river, the hills, the proximity to the sea – seems always present, and the millions of people who have spent their lives passing through its streets and travelling along its underground veins make London, like my studio, a place of chaos, providing an opportunity for continual involvement and activity’ (Leon Kossoff quoted in exhibition catalogue, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings, Venice, XLVI Venice Biennale, 1995, p. 10).