
Property from a Prestigious Private Collection, United Kingdom
A Street in Willesden
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June 24, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Leon Kossoff
1926 - 2019
A Street in Willesden
oil on board
213.4 by 208.3 cm. 84 by 82 in.
Executed in 1985.
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Saatchi Collection, London (acquired from the above in 1988)
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above in 1991)
Sotheby's, London, 13 October 2011, lot 20 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery; and New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Leon Kossoff, September – November 1988, n.p., illustrated (London)
London, Saatchi Collection, Bill Woodrow / Leon Kossoff, November 1989 – March 1990, p. 2 (text)
Roy Oxlade, “Leon Kossoff,” Art Monthly, no. 120, October 1988, p. 13 (text)
Robert Hughes, “A Tortoise Obsessed with Oily Stuff: Painter Leon Kossoff Prevails by Plying a Rich Tradition,” Time Magazine, 14 November 1988, p. 88, illustrated in colour
Richard Shone, “Leon Kossoff: London and New York,” Burlington Magazine, vol. 130, no. 1028, November 1988, no. 53, p. 869, illustrated
Michael Archer, “Leon Kossoff,” Artforum International, vol. 27, no. 4, December 1988, p. 136, illustrated
Jed Perl, “Autumn Alphabet,” New Criterion, vol. 7, no. 7, March 1989, p. 52 (text)
Alistair Hicks, New British Art in the Saatchi Gallery, London 1989, no. 61, p. 70, illustrated in colour
Mary Rose Beaumont, “London Reviews: Leon Kossof (sic) and Bill Woodrow,” Arts Review, vol. 42, no. 2, 26 January 1990, p. 47 (text)
James Burr, “Counting One's Losses,” Apollo, vol. 131, no. 337, March 1990, no. 2, p. 200, illustrated
Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists, London 1990, p. 344 (text)
James Hyman, Golden Builders and the Crowd: Kossoff's Imaging of London, London 1990, pp. 37-38, no. 20a, n.p.; no.20b and 20c, n.p. (detail), illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, Leon Kossoff, 1996, no. 43, pp. 30 and 32, illustrated in colour
Roy Oxlade, “Leon Kossoff,” Art & Instinct: Selected Writings of Roy Oxlade, London 2010, p. 72 (text)
Georgina Adam, “Cool, Calm and Still Collecting,” Financial Times Weekend, 15-16 October 2011 (text)
Andrea Rose, ed., Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London 2021, no. 308, p. 381, illustrated in colour
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