Andrea Rose, “Leon Kossoff, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings” Published by Modern Art Press, London, 2021, Page 574 Illustrated in colour, Catalogue Raisonné No. 492 In the Catalogue Raisonne Andrea Rose notes:

"In 1996, the British government took the decision to move the Channel Tunnel Rail Link from Waterloo Station

South London to St Pancras in North London, providing the catalyst for the redevelopment of King’s Cross and St Pancras

stations and the regeneration of the derelict railway lands behind them. Kossoff had first painted the area around King’s Cross

in 1967 (see cat. 84), returning to the subject 30 years later to focus on the station itself (see cat. 444). In 1999, approval was given to build two new ticket halls for King’s Cross St Pancras Underground Station, as well as to expand the existing ticket hall, which sits beneath the main-line station forecourt. Between 2003 and 2004, Kossoff completed a series of drawings of the works in progress the huge spaces of the ticket halls opening up beneath the forecourt like the subterranean vaults of a latter-day Piranesi (see Annely Juda Fine Art, Galerie Lelong, Mitchell-Innes & Nash and L.A. Louver 2013, nos 60–64).

In the present work he paints the station for a final time. The forecourt in front of the station (subsequently to

become a new public plaza) occupies most of the space, with workmen in high-visibility jackets dotted around the site,

and the earthworks rising like a tide against the sandy-coloured brickwork of the station. The sky on this early morning is the colour of pewter, its steeliness reflected in the two enormous windows of the station facade"