Leon Kossoff, "Willesden Junction" (1962), ... (1957), in charcoal and gouache on paper, is asleep, but this father’s sleep looks like a final act of submission to world weariness.

Leon Kossoff was born on Dec. 10, 1926, in Islington, London, to Jewish immigrants from Russia. He was the second of seven siblings. His father was a baker.

Kossoff’s parents, Jewish bakers, had fled the pogroms of the tsarist Ukraine for the East End of London in 1904. “My mother and father emigrated from Russia and the world I grew up in was ...

Leon Kossoff’s “Portrait of Father No. 3” (1972), in “Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting,” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York. In addition to that exhibition, the show’s title is ...

Leon Kossoff, “Portrait of Mother Asleep” (1963), oil on board, 160 x 122 cm. Private Collection (© The Artist’s Estate. Courtesy Annely Juda Fine Art, London, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New ...

The UK artist Leon Kossoff has died aged 92 after a brief illness. His gallery, London’s Annely Juda Fine Art, ... “My father struggled to support us working as a baker, ...

It seems odd to call Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art's new show of Leon Kossoff's work "timely." But it is, even though the London-based painter remains, at 75, what he has always been: a throwback ...

The walk through the National Gallery that I am taking with Leon Kossoff, ... In 1936, Kossoff found his way to Trafalgar Square from his home in Hackney, where his father was a Jewish baker.