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Furthermore, the close-up composition that excludes contextual detail in Self-Portrait and is seen in Kossoff’s work more generally has led critic and curator Poul Eric Tøjner to comment that the world shown in Kossoff’s canvases ‘is wrenched free of its origin and quite simply becomes the universe. The brushwork in both paintings is indicative of the young artists’ developing expressionist style, including the sculptural layering of loaded brushstrokes. Auerbach’s Portrait of Leon Kossoff has a similar composition to Self-Portrait in the way that it enlarges and focuses on Kossoff’s head, and was painted from life around the time that the two artists were attending Bomberg’s classes. They moved on to study together at London’s Royal College of Art and continued to work closely, observing London street scenes, studying paintings at the National Gallery and becoming associated with the loosely defined group of artists known as the School of London. Auerbach and Kossoff first met in the Antique Room at St Martin’s in 1948 and became lifelong friends and colleagues. Kossoff made several self-portraits during his career, as well as paintings of other sitters, and was himself painted by his close friend and contemporary, the British painter Frank Auerbach (see Portrait of Leon Kossoff 1951, Tate L02669). Coming to Bomberg’s class was like coming home’ (quoted in Paul Moorhouse, Leon Kossoff, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1996, p.12). Kossoff found the emphasis on looser brushwork and composition in Bomberg’s lessons a revelation in comparison to the academic formality at St Martin’s, stating in 1995 that ‘Although I had painted most of my life, it was through my contact with Bomberg that I felt I might actually function as a painter. Between 19 Kossoff also attended evening classes at Borough Polytechnic in London under the tutelage of the British painter David Bomberg. Kossoff made Self-Portrait when he was undertaking art classes at St Martin’s School of Art, London. Kossoff also made use of the brush handle to scrape back through paint layers, as in the strong diagonal line visible in the neck area. However, this effect is not uniform, and in some places the paint is much thinner, for instance in the area just to the right of Kossoff's chin. In most areas the paint has been applied straight from the tube in multiple layers using a wet-on-wet technique to create visible impasto and a blending of pictorial forms. It is painted on a slightly open-weave linen canvas, the texture of which Kossoff has employed as part of the surface of the work. This painting was created by Kossoff in London in c.1952. As such the painting is less a portrait in a conventional sense than an intense evocation of a young man’s expression and emotion, devoid of any social contact or context. Kossoff’s head and neck fill the entire canvas, although he is not immediately recognisable from the work largely due to the loose handling of the brushwork that has resulted in the features appearing blurred and distorted. The work is a self-portrait showing the British artist Leon Kossoff as a young man, aged approximately twenty-six years old.
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