Booking Hall no. 1

"Kossoff began drawing Kilburn Underground station in the mid-1970s. Its main features are a rather anonymous booking hall, and bridges outside which span the surrounding streets. Ostensibly unremarkable, this building nevertheless became one of his main subjects during the next decade. For in its ordinariness Kossoff divined a focus for the lifeblood of the city; in the coming and going of its travellers he found a place rich in human experience and through his progressive dialogue with the changing rhythms and atmosphere of the subject he perceived a motif which reverberated with personal meaning." (P. Moorhouse in Leon Kossoff, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London 1996, p. 24)