Lot 230
  • 230

Leon Kossoff

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Leon Kossoff
  • Head of Peggy I
  • oil on board
  • 74 by 54cm.; 29 by 21 1/4 in.
  • Executed in 1999.

Provenance

Mitchell-Ines & Nash, New York
Annely Juda Fine Arts, London
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2000

Exhibited

New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash; London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Leon Kossoff, 2000, p. 23, illustrated in colour

Condition

This work is in very good condition. There is evidence of very light wear to the extreme horizontal edges. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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Catalogue Note

“The muted earthen tones, monumental scale, and visceral layering of loaded brushstrokes all congeal into precarious likenesses in Kossoff's heads (...) The heavier the impasto of the face filling the space, the more modulations of light suffuse and transform the face in the portrait. These works radiate a somber grace and earthenness that can be related to Cézanne’s mid-1860s portraits of his uncle and also to Van Gogh’s early portraits of peasants, both groups of works that are highly regarded by Kossoff.”

KLAUS KERTESS
Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Leon Kossoff, 2000, pp. 10-11