LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)

Lot 15
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Lot 15 | LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)
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LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)

Willesden Junction

oil on board

12 x 21 ¼ in. (30.5 x 54 cm.)

Painted in 1962.





Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist.

Their sale; Phillips, London, 6 June 2000, lot 99, as 'Early Morning, Willesden Junction'.

with Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, where purchased by the previous owner in 2007.

with Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner in 2013.



Literature

N. Gosling, 'Gallery Guide: Beaux Arts', The Observer, 24 May 1964.

P. Moorhouse, Leon Kossoff, London, 1996, pp. 17-18.

Exhibition catalogue, Aspects of Modern British Art, London, Austin Desmond Fine Art, 2000, n.p., no. 48, illustrated.

E. Crippa (ed.), exhibition catalogue, All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, London, Tate Britain, 2018, pp. 127, 216, exhibition not numbered, illustrated, as 'Early Morning, Willesden Junction'.

L. Farey, exhibition catalogue, Leon Kossoff: A London Life, London, Piano Nobile, 2019, pp. 51-52, no. 6, illustrated.

A. Rose, Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2021, p. 124, no. 54, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Beaux Arts, Leon Kossoff: A Selection of Paintings 1949-64, April - June 1964, no. 18.

London, Austin Desmond Fine Art, Aspects of Modern British Art, November 2000 - January 2001, no. 48, as 'Early Morning, Willesden Junction'.

London, Tate Britain, All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, February - August 2018, exhibition not numbered, as 'Early Morning, Willesden Junction'.

London, Piano Nobile, Leon Kossoff: A London Life, March - May 2019, no. 6.
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