LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)
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ID 1472864
Lot 30 | LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)
Estimate value
350000GBP £ 350 000 – 550 000
Nude on a Red Bed, Summer
oil on board
30 ¼ x 54 in. (76.8 x 137.2 cm.)
Painted in 1969.
Provenance
Victor Waddington, 1972.
with Fischer Fine Art, London, where purchased by Stuart Barovick in 1986.
with Anthony d'Offay, London, 1991.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 April 1998, lot 45.
with Gallery K, Oslo.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 June 2007, lot 222.
with L.A. Louver, Venice, California, where purchased by the present owner in November 2022.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Summer 1994: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1994, pl. 36, as 'Nude on a Red Bed'.
R. Cork, 'Capital Deposit North of the Border', The Times, 11 July 1995.
'Remembering Leon Kossoff through His Scenes of Anxiety and Disquiet', ARTnews, 5 July 2019, illustrated, as 'Nude on a Red Bed'.
A. Rose, Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2021, p. 178, no. 103, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings, January - February 1972, p. 41, no. 34, illustrated.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Pictures for an Exhibition, March - May 1980, no. 23.
Oslo, British Council, Kunstnernes Hus, A School of London: Six Figurative Painters, May - June 1987, p. 84, no. 59, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, June - August.
Edinburgh, British Council, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj, July - September 1995, p. 142, no. 26, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Luxembourg, Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, September - November; Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, November 1995 - January 1996; and Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Catalunya, La Pedrera, February - April.
London, Tate Gallery, Leon Kossoff, June - September 1996, pp. 85, 165, no. 41, illustrated, as 'Nude on a Red Bed'.
Copenhagen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Corner 1998, December 1997 - January 1998, exhibition not numbered, illustrated, as 'Nude on a Red Bed'.
Venice, California, L.A. Louver, Figuration: Paintings and Drawings - Tony Bevan, William Brice, Rebecca Campbell, Richard Diebenkorn, Charles Garabedian, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Alice Neel, November - December 2010, no catalogue.
Venice, California, L.A. Louver, Evolver, June - August 2018, no catalogue.
Further Details
We are very grateful to Andrea Rose for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Artist: | Leon Kossoff (1926 - 2019) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Modern art |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Leon Kossoff (1926 - 2019) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Art style: | Modern art |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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