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Leon Kossoff, Children’s Swimming Pool Autumn Afternoon, 1971. ©Tate
Exhibition
Soutine | Kossoff
1 Apr 2023 – 24 Sep 2023
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Address
- Hastings Contemporary
- Rock-a-nore Road
- Hastings
England - TN34 3DW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The 20, 100 and 101 buses from Hastings train station stop at the Stade bus stop which is a short walk away.
- Hastings Contemporary is approximately 15 minutes’ walk from Hastings train station. Direct train services run regularly to London, Brighton and Ashford International.
Soutine | Kossoff pairs two major figures of 20th-century painting: one a master of the School of Paris, the other a master of the School of London. This is the first ever exhibition to explore the artistic relationship between British artist Leon Kossoff and Belarus-born painter Chaïm Soutine.
About
This exhibition brings together 39 important works from public and private collections in
the UK, USA and beyond, and includes one of the largest groups of works by Soutine exhibited in the UK since 1982. Undertaken with the support of the Leon Kossoff Estate, Soutine | Kossoff will include portraits and landscapes by both artists. Kossoff was already finding his way towards a direct and expressive use of paint in the early 50s when, in a pivotal moment for his practice, he discovered his predecessor’s paintings.
The exhibition features seminal landscapes painted by Soutine in southern France in the early 1920s, with highlights including Paysage aux cyprès (c.1922). From Kossoff come major paintings of railway junctions, building sites and other scenes- of unexpected beauty found in north and north-west London.
