London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj

J. Paul Getty Museum
Jul 26th – Nov 13th 2016
Los Angeles, 1200 Getty Center DriveMap
, 'The Wedding,' 1989-1993, J. Paul Getty Museum

R.B. Kitaj

The Wedding, 1989-1993

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Children’s Swimming Pool, Autumn Afternoon, 1971,' 1971, J. Paul Getty Museum

Leon Kossoff

Children’s Swimming Pool, Autumn Afternoon, 1971, 1971

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Boy Smoking,' 1950-1951, J. Paul Getty Museum

Lucian Freud

Boy Smoking, 1950-1951

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Girl with a Kitten ,' 1947, J. Paul Getty Museum

Lucian Freud

Girl with a Kitten , 1947

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Mornington Crescent with the statue of Sickert's father in law,' 1966, J. Paul Getty Museum

Frank Auerbach

Mornington Crescent with the statue of Sickert's father in law, 1966

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'The Deer Park ,' 1962, J. Paul Getty Museum

Michael Andrews

The Deer Park , 1962

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, ' Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne ,' 1966, J. Paul Getty Museum

Francis Bacon

Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne , 1966

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Cecil Court, London W.C.2. (The Refugees),' 1983-1984, J. Paul Getty Museum

R.B. Kitaj

Cecil Court, London W.C.2. (The Refugees), 1983-1984

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Two Seated Figures No. 2,' 1980, J. Paul Getty Museum

Leon Kossoff

Two Seated Figures No. 2, 1980

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Leigh Bowery,' 1991, J. Paul Getty Museum

Lucian Freud

Leigh Bowery, 1991

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Building Site, Oxford Street ,' 1952, J. Paul Getty Museum

Leon Kossoff

Building Site, Oxford Street , 1952

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Self-Portrait, 1958,' 1958, J. Paul Getty Museum

Frank Auerbach

Self-Portrait, 1958, 1958

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Melanie and Me Swimming , 1978 – 1979,' 1978-1979, J. Paul Getty Museum

Michael Andrews

Melanie and Me Swimming , 1978 – 1979, 1978-1979

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Figure in a Landscape,' about 1952, J. Paul Getty Museum

Francis Bacon

Figure in a Landscape, about 1952

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Boys and Girls!,' 1964, J. Paul Getty Museum

R.B. Kitaj

Boys and Girls!, 1964

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Girl with a White Dog,' 1950-1951, J. Paul Getty Museum

Lucian Freud

Girl with a White Dog, 1950-1951

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Narcissus,' 1948, J. Paul Getty Museum

Lucian Freud

Narcissus, 1948

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Self-Portrait II,' 2010, J. Paul Getty Museum

Frank Auerbach

Self-Portrait II, 2010

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Mornington Crescent - Summer Morning,' 2004, J. Paul Getty Museum

Frank Auerbach

Mornington Crescent - Summer Morning, 2004

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

, 'Triptych - August 1972,' 1972, J. Paul Getty Museum

Francis Bacon

Triptych - August 1972, 1972

"London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj" at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Press Release

WORKING IN POSTWAR BRITAIN, the artists of the "School of London" rejected contemporary art’s preoccupation with abstraction and conceptualism in favor of the human figure and everyday landscape.

Drawn primarily from the Tate in London, this exhibition highlights the work of six of the leading artists who revolutionized and reinvigorated figurative painting in the later 20th century: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, and R.B. Kitaj.

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Lucian Freud
Leon Kossoff
Francis Bacon
Frank Auerbach
R.B. Kitaj
Michael Andrews