Summary
This print
is one of many works executed by the London-based artist Leon Kossoff in response to paintings
from the National Gallery, London, in this case, A Woman Bathing in a Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels?), 1654, by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69). Rembrandt’s work has a long-standing appeal to Kossoff, whose output includes numerous drawings and prints derived from close study of the Dutch master’s art. Kossoff etched these works in front of the paintings in question and a quality of spontaneity is characteristic of the finished prints. Tate’s collection includes two versions of this image derived from the same plate, acquired at different times. P11686, acquired by Tate in 1999, is a trial proof in black ink… (read more)
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