Leon Kossoff, Between Kilburn and Willesden Green, Autumn, 1987

1987

Medium

oil on board

Dimensions

61 × 55.9 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-153649

'The strange ever-changing light, the endless streets and the shuddering feel of the sprawling city, lingers in my mind like a faintly glimmering memory of a long forgotten, perhaps never experienced childhood, which if rediscovered and illuminated would ameliorate the pain of the present… Although I have drawn and painted from landscapes and people constantly, I have never finished a picture without first experiencing a huge emptying of all factual and topographical knowledge. And always the moment before finishing, the painting disappears, sometimes into greyness forever, or sometimes into a huge heap on the floor to be reclaimed, redrawn and committed to an image which makes itself.' Leon Kossoff [1] Leon Kossoff has lived in the same semi-detached house in Willesden Green since the late 1960s, in what is still a relatively quiet corner of North West London. The present painting shows the view from the artist's garden, looking down a path and out onto a section of railway line which runs between Kilburn and Willesden Green stations.