Nude on a red Bed

Kossoff produced a series of paintings entitled 'Nude on a Bed' between 1968 and 1972. He writes about this process of returning frequently to the same motif: "Every time the model sits everything has changed. You have changed, she has changed. The light has changed, the balance has changed. The directions you try to remember are no longer there and, whether working from the model or landscape drawings, everything has to be reconstructed daily, many, many times" (P. Moorhouse, 'Leon Kossoff', London, 1996, p.22).