
Property from The Estate of Sir Torquil and Lady Anne Norman
Willesden Junction, Summer No. 1
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Leon Kossoff
1926 - 2019
Willesden Junction, Summer No. 1
oil on board
92 by 184.5 cm. 36¼ by 72¾ in.
Executed in 1966.
Sir Torquil and Lady Anne Norman (acquired directly from the artist by 1971)
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings, January - February 1972, no. 36, n.p., illustrated in colour (incorrect dimensions)
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; and Lucerne, Museum of Art Lucerne, Leon Kossoff, Selected Paintings 1956-2000, November 2004 - July 2005, no. 14, n.p., illustrated in colour (incorrect dimensions)
London, Haunch of Venison, The Mystery of Appearance: Conversations between Ten British Post-war Painters, December 2011 - February 2012, pp. 84-85, illustrated in colour (incorrect dimensions)
Lorenz Schaffner, "Durch dicke Farbschichten die Wirklichkeit enthüllen," Luzerner Woche, 18 May 2005, p. 16, illustrated in colour (titled Willesden Junction)
Maria Vogel, "In diesen Germälden geschiet etwas," Willisauer Bote, 7 May 2005, illustrated in colour (incorrect dimensions)
Laura McLean-Ferris, “The Mystery of Appearance,” e-flux, 21 December 2011, illustrated in colour (online) (incorrect dimensions)
Jackie Wullschlager, “Bright Lights, Small Island,” Financial Times Weekend, 10-11 December 2011 (text) (online)
Laura McLean-Ferris, “The Mystery of Appearance, Haunch of Venison,” Art Review, no. 56, January/February 2012, p. 104 (text)
Exh. Cat., London, Piano Nobile, Leon Kossoff: A London Life, 2019, no. 10, p. 52, illustrated in colour; and no. 10, n.p., illustrated in colour (detail)
Andrea Rose, Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London 2021, no. 80, pp. 150-51, illustrated in colour
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