ID 1308508 
Lot 141  | LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000 
Fidelma Asleep
oil on board
36 5/8 x 25 in. (93.2 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted in 1980.
Provenance
with Fischer Fine Art, London, 1984.
B.S. O'Kefe, Q.C.
with Rex Irwin, Sydney, where purchased by the present owner in the early 1990s.
Literature
A. Rose, Leon Kossoff, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2021, p. 312, no. 239, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Hirschl and Adler Modern, Leon Kossoff, March 1983, no. 8.
Sydney, Rex Irwin, Kossoff, Auerbach, Bacon & Freud, June - July 1984, no. 36.
| Artist: | Leon Kossoff (1926 - 2019) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted | 
| Medium: | Board | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Artist: | Leon Kossoff (1926 - 2019) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted | 
| Medium: | Board | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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