The Triumph of Pan
1998
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1998
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Triumph of Pan is a 1998 by Leon Kossoff, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Leon Kossoff made prints instead of paintings. His 1998 etching *The Triumph of Pan* shows his usual focus on line, not color. He used the same method as his friends Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud. Kossoff copied old masters like Poussin and Rembrandt. But his prints weren’t copies. They were his own study of their lines and shapes. Look up Leon Kossoff next.
Leon Kossoff’s 1998 etching *The Triumph of Pan* stems from his series of prints after Old Master paintings, in which he reworked compositions by Poussin, Rembrandt, and Veronese to investigate line and structure. Created in collaboration with Ann Dowker and Marc Balakjian, the print reflects Kossoff’s practice of revising proofs extensively, sometimes after an edition had already been produced. By removing color, he focused on the underlying forms to deepen his engagement with the original artists’ techniques and ideas. The process involved quick, intuitive mark-making, as Kossoff described…
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Leon Kossoff (10 December 1926 – 4 July 2019) was a British figurative painter known for portraits, life drawings and cityscapes of London, England.
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