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Property from the Estate of Sir Torquil and Lady Anne Norman

Leon Kossoff

Head Leaning on Hand

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Leon Kossoff

1926 - 2019


Head Leaning on Hand

oil on board

unframed: 56.5 by 77 cm. 22¼ by 30¼ in.

framed: 82 by 101.5 cm. 32¼ by 40 in.

Executed in 1959.


We are grateful to Andrea Rose for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Rosemary Peto, via Beaux Arts Gallery, London, 1959

Sir Torquil and Lady Anne Norman, 1998

London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Leon Kossoff, September and October 1959, no. 13

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Leon Kossoff: Selected Paintings 1956 - 2000, 19 November 2004 - 24 July 2005, no. 5, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 23, with tour to Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern

London, Annely Juda Fine Art, A Life in Painting, London. 30 September - 4 December 2021, p.30

Andrea Rose, Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Modern Art Press, 2021, p. 103, no. 38