Leon Kossoff

Rosemary Peto, United Kingdom (acquired directly from the artist by 1971)

Saatchi Collection, London (acquired from the above in 1984)

Sotheby’s, London, 3 December 1992, lot 59 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings, January - February 1972, no. 31, p. 39, illustrated in colour

London, Royal Academy of Arts, British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement, January - April 1987, no. 247, pp. 94, 310 and p. 335, illustrated in colour

London, Saatchi Collection, Bill Woodrow, Leon Kossoff, November 1989 - March 1990

London, Tate Gallery, Leon Kossoff, June - September 1996, no. 24, p. 76, illustrated in colour

P. Dyke, “Leon Kossoff," Arts Review, vol. 24, no. 2, 29 January 1972, p. 32

William Feaver, “London Letter," Arts International, vol. 16, no. 4, 20 April 1972, p. 50

Peter Schjeldahl, ed., Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, London 1984, no. 141, n.p., illustrated in colour

Helen Lessore, A Partial Testament: Essays on Some Moderns in the Great Tradition, London 1986, p. 154

Alistair Hicks, ed., Art of Our Time, London 1987, pp. 31-32

Peter Fuller, “Beauty in the Muddy Riverbed: Peter Fuller on the Paintings of Leon Kossoff," Sunday Telegraph, 19 November 1989, n.p.

Alistair Hicks, ed., New British Art in the Saatchi Collection, London 1989, no. 53, p. 65, illustrated in colour

Alistair Hicks, The School of London: The Resurgence of Contemporary Painting, Oxford 1989, no. 21, p. 41, illustrated and p. 44

Mary Rose Beaumont, "London Reviews: Leon Kossoff and Bill Woodrow," Arts Review, vol. 42, no. 2, 26 January 1990, p. 47

Paul Levy, "Summer Art Offerings all over London," Wall Street Journal, 7 June 1996, n.p.

William Feaver, "Lay It On Thick," The Observer, 9 June 1996, n.p.

Adrian Searle, "Paint It Black – and Bleak," The Guardian, 11 June 1996, n.p., illustrated in colour (detail)

Richard Cork, "Reporter of the Times of London," The Times, 18 June 1996, p. 35, illustrated in colour

Adrian Searle, "Bleak Moments in a Bleak City," Guardian Weekly, 23 June 1996, n.p.

John McEwen, "Pile the Paint On Thick, and Then Pile On Some More," Sunday Telegraph, 23 June 1996, n.p., illustrated in colour

Martin Coomer, "Inner City Life," Time Out, 10-17 July 1996, p. 52, illustrated in colour

Estelle Lovatt, "Leon Kossoff," Southern Cross, 7 August 1996, illustrated in colour (incorrect orientation)

Clare Rendell, "Leon Kossoff," Contemporary Art, vol. 3, no. 4, Summer 1996, p. 73 and p. 74, illustrated

Richard Shone, "Leon Kossoff," Artforum International, vol. 35, no. 1, September 1996, p. 103, illustrated in colour

Colin Gleadell, "Contemporary Market," Daily Telegraph, 15 May 2000

Edward Booth-Clibborn, ed., The History of the Saatchi Gallery, London 2011, pp. 244-45, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., London, Annely Juda Fine Art (and travelling), Leon Kossoff: London Landscapes, 2013, no. 12, p. 18 and p. 41, illustrated in colour

Alastair Smart, "London’s Churning," Sunday Telegraph, 12 May 2013, n.p.

Coline Milliard, "Leon Kossoff: A Life Spent Looking at the City," Art + Auction, November 2013, p. 150, illustrated in colour

Martin Gayford, Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters, London 2018, pp. 63-64, 266 and p. 265, illustrated in colour

Editors of ARTnews, "Remembering Leon Kossoff through His Scenes of Anxiety and Disquiet," ARTnews, 5 July 2019, online, illustrated in colour

Alex Greenberger, "Leon Kossoff, Key Painter of Postwar London, Dies at 92," ARTnews, 5 July 2019, online, illustrated in colour

Victoria Stapley-Brown, "Post-war Painter Leon Kossoff, Who Captured London Life and Landscapes, Dies Aged 92," The Art Newspaper, 5 July 2019, online, illustrated in colour

"Leon Kossoff Leading School of London Painter Dies Age 92," Artlyst, 6 July 2019, online, illustrated in colour

Michael McNay, "Leon Kossoff Obituary: Artist Whose Work Was Rooted in the City, People and Daily Life of London," The Guardian, 7 July 2019, online, illustrated in colour

Colin Wiggins, "'It Was in London That He Belonged,' Remembering Leon Kossoff," Apollo Magazine, 8 July 2019, online, illustrated in colour

Charles Darwent, "Leon Kossoff: Figurative and Landscape Painter Who Chronicled London Life," The Independent, 13 July 2019, online, illustrated in colour

"Leon Kossoff Has Died but Every Time We Look at His Paintings We Will Return to Seeing Again," Diary Sunday Painter, 20 July 2019, online, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., London, Piano Nobile, Leon Kossoff: A London Life, 2019, no. 2, p. 17, illustrated in colour and and p. 41

Andrea Rose, Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London 2021, no. 102, pp. 52, 68, 166, 182, 198, 210 and pp. 176-77, illustrated in colour