Copyright: © Leon Kossoff | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, this is Leon Kossoff's "The Triumph of Pan," based on a drawing by Poussin. It's all angular lines, but somehow still feels really energetic. What do you see in this piece? Curator: Well, it's a bit like eavesdropping on a dream, isn't it? Kossoff takes Poussin's ordered classicism and... well, roughs it up, gives it a slap and a wink. You get the sense of Bacchanalian revelry, but filtered through Kossoff's distinctly modern lens. It's a memory of a memory. What do you make of that? Editor: I think I get it. It's like a distant echo of the original, but with a completely different feeling. Thanks for pointing that out. Curator: My pleasure. Makes you think about how we remember things, doesn't it?
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This print is one of many etchings executed by Leon Kossoff in response to, and literally in the presence of, paintings and drawings by old masters; in this case a preparatory drawing for The Triumph of Pan, 1635-6 (National Gallery, London), by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665). Tate owns two prints after this Poussin drawing (Tate P11734-5) as well as four prints by after the finished Poussin painting (Tate P11730-3). Kossoff’s ability to explore a number of separate responses while making drawings and prints from a single subject is illustrated in these etchings. Tate owns the only artist’s proof of this version.
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