Summary
This print
is one of many works executed by the London-based artist Leon Kossoff in response to Old Master paintings
from the National Gallery, in this case, The Judgement of Paris, 1632–5, by Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640). Tate owns several of Kossoff’s prints after this Rubens painting, including P11719–20, dating from 1998. P20304 and P20324 were made in 2006 and are drypoint engravings. The artist’s ability to develop a range of responses to the same painting is illustrated in these works, in which the interpretation of the original is markedly different from that of the prints undertaken in 1998. Both are unique proofs and represent different, re-worked states from the same plate. Kossoff collaborated on the production of the prints with the artist Ann Dowker… (read more)
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