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The theft of a vanload of Leon Kossoff’s work haunted the painter for 50 years. Now historians hope some might be recovered

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In 2014 Gillian Wearing made a photographic work titled Me as an Artist in 1984. As so often, she appears in it herself, in a bespoke and somewhat unnerving mask: on this occasion, as the title suggests, replicating her own smooth features in early adulthood, her more experienced eyes looking out, her hair teased up in a period style. Beside her, meanwhile, is a painting, an anachronistic study in biomorphic Surrealism featuring a pair of distended figures, one with huge red lips, floating in space. Until recently this was the only clue – or, if you like, confession – in Wearing’s oeu...

Brothers in paint: Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff With the offer of works by both Kossoff and Auerbach in March — as well as by David Bomberg, their tutor of the early 1950s — Alastair Smart explores a connection between two artists that lasted more than 70 years To help pay his way through art school, Frank Auerbach (b. 1931) took a job alongside his classmate, Leon Kossoff (1926-2019), in the latter’s family bakery in the East End of London. Auerbach would serve on one counter, selling bread; Kossoff on the other, selling cakes. In time, the pair would leave the...

Christie's Modern British Art Evening Sale now online for browsing Henry Moore, Maquette for King and Queen, conceived and cast in 1952, estimate: £750,000-1,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021. LONDON .- The Modern British Art Evening Sale will be led by Sir Winston Churchill’s Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque (1943, estimate: £1,500,000-2,500,000), offered from The Jolie Family Collection. It is presented alongside two further works by the former Prime Minister of the UK, Scene at Marrakech (circa 1935, estimate: £300,000-500,000), offered by order of the Trustees of Viscount Montgomery...