Summary
This print
is one of many etchings
executed by the London-based artist Leon Kossoff in response to Old Master paintings
from the National Gallery. The work in this case is Minerva Protects Pax from Mars (‘Peace and War’), 1629–30, by Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640). Tate owns several of the artist’s prints after this Rubens painting, P11700–4, dating from 1998, and P20306–7, both from 1999. Kossoff etched these works in front of the paintings in question and a quality of spontaneity is characteristic of the finished prints, as is his ability to develop different responses to the same painting. P20306 and P20307 are from two different plates, and are unique prints. Kossoff collaborated on the production of the prints with the artist Ann Dowker… (read more)
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