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Artists›Leon Kossoff

Leon Kossoff

1926–2019

WA-00020893

Islington, UK

PaintingExpressionism

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

100

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ361396

Field Verification (5 fields)

5 cross-verified · 0 single-source

NationalityWikidata + Duplicate Merge· 92%✓
Birth yearWikidata + Duplicate Merge· 92%✓
BiographyWikipedia + Duplicate Merge· 88%✓
Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
Primary mediumDuplicate Merge· 85%✓

Source Registry (3)

Hauser-Wirthhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/leon-kossoff
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Xavier-Hufkenshttps://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Leon Kossoff yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (95)

The Triumph of Pan (from a Poussin Drawing) (2)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Triumph of Pan (3)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Triumph of Pan (4)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Triumph of Pan (from a Poussin Drawing) (1)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Triumph of Pan (2)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Testament of Eudamidas (2)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Triumph of Pan (1)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Rape of the Sabines (2)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Rape of the Sabines (1)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (2)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Nurture of Bacchus

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (3)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Judgement of Paris (1)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Judgement of Paris (2)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Family of Darius before Alexander (2)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Holy Family on the Step

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Family of Darius before Alexander (1)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Consecration of Saint Nicholas (1)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Consecration of Saint Nicholas (2)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Brazen Serpent (1)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Brazen Serpent (2)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

The Brazen Serpent (3)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (2)

1998 · Etching on paper

Tate

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Artwork sources (4)

95 published of 95 catalogued · 86 with image

Tate
85 published85 img
The Met
7 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
2 published
Art Institute Chicago
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

Christ Church Spitalfields, Friday Evening
1991 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Christ Brought before the People
1998 · Tate · 1 prov
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The Syndics
1990 · Tate · 1 prov
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The Consecration of Saint Nicholas (1)
1998 · Tate · 1 prov
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Self-Portrait. Verso: Untitled (Two Figures)
1967 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Triumph of Pan (from a Poussin Drawing) (1)
1998 · Tate · 1 prov
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Children’s Swimming Pool, Autumn Afternoon
1971 · Tate · 1 prov
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Christ after the Flagellation Contemplated by the Christian Soul (1)
1998 · Tate · 1 prov
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Bacchanal before a Herm (1)
1998 · Tate · 1 prov
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From Constable: Stoke-by-Nayland (plate 2)
1991 · Tate · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Movements1

Expressionism

Collections5

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Christie's

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