
Christchurch
Leon Kossoff's 'Christchurch' is an etching with aquatint and drypoint on Arches paper, presented with full margins. The printmaking work demonstrates the artist's technical mastery and expressive use of multiple intaglio techniques.
- Medium
- Etching with aquatint and drypoint, on Arches paper, with full margins.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
June 6, 2024
Lot 135
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Artists in conversation

Frank Auerbach
British · b. 1931

Auerbach, a close friend of Kossoff, similarly created expressive urban London landscapes in printmaking and painting with intense atmospheric density and a focus on architectural subjects rendered with visceral mark making.

Lucian Freud
British · b. 1922

Freud produced deeply expressive etchings using drypoint and aquatint techniques that share Kossoff's commitment to monochrome tonality, textural richness, and the raw expressive potential of intaglio printmaking within the British Post-War tradition.

Paula Rego
Portuguese · b. 1935

Rego worked extensively with aquatint etching on Arches paper, producing atmospheric and tonally complex prints that demonstrate similar technical command of layered intaglio processes and a comparable brooding expressive quality.
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