Lot Essay
We are very grateful to Andrea Rose for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTOR
LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)
Fidelma No. 1
Details
LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)
Fidelma No. 1
oil on board
19 ½ x 24 ¾ in. (49.5 x 62.8 cm.)
Painted in 1984.
Fidelma No. 1
oil on board
19 ½ x 24 ¾ in. (49.5 x 62.8 cm.)
Painted in 1984.
Provenance
with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by Edward Lees in 1986.
with Blains Fine Art, London.
with Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, where purchased by the previous owner by 1996.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 October 2003, lot 413, where purchased by the present owner.
with Blains Fine Art, London.
with Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, where purchased by the previous owner by 1996.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 October 2003, lot 413, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Affinities in Paint: Work by Appel, Auerbach, Bacci, Bogart, Bowling, de Staël, Doucet, Dubuffet, Jorn, Hofmann, Hoyland, Kossoff, Olitski, Tapies, Rouault, Soutine and Bomberg, London, Crane Gallery, 1991, n.p., exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
P. Moorhouse, exhibition catalogue, Leon Kossoff, London, Tate Gallery, 1996, pp. 101, 165, no. 50, illustrated.
A. Rose, Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2021, p. 372, no. 299, illustrated.
P. Moorhouse, exhibition catalogue, Leon Kossoff, London, Tate Gallery, 1996, pp. 101, 165, no. 50, illustrated.
A. Rose, Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2021, p. 372, no. 299, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Crane Gallery, Affinities in Paint: Work by Appel, Auerbach, Bacci, Bogart, Bowling, de Staël, Doucet, Dubuffet, Jorn, Hofmann, Hoyland, Kossoff, Olitski, Tapies, Rouault, Soutine and Bomberg, June - July 1991, exhibition not numbered.
London, Tate Gallery, Leon Kossoff, June - September 1996, no. 50.
London, Tate Gallery, Leon Kossoff, June - September 1996, no. 50.
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