Page 36 - Studio International - December 1967
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Above Leon Kossoff, York Way Railway Bridge from Caledonian
                                                                                  Road, Winter 1966/7
                                                                                  Oil on board, 48 x 65 in.













                                                                                  Frank Auerbach, Primrose Hill, Autumn 1963-4
                                                                                  Oil on board, 41 x 57 in.
                                                                                  'I don't think that I am expressionist, if this means being a
                                                                                  painter who attempts to find conformations, sometimes in cold
                                                                                  blood, which will give an effect of passion; it seems to me that
                                                                                  I am attempting by feeling, to find living conformations which
                                                                                  will surprise me by their independence and will for me define
                                                                                  sensations of reality.
                                                                                  'That these would have, ideally, to rival the "real" world in
                                                                                  their directness, complexity and unpredictability goes without
                                                                                  saying.' (From a letter-1967)
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