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LEON KOSSOFF | Willesden Junction
估價
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
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描述
- Leon Kossoff
- Willesden Junction
- chalk on paper
- 59 by 78cm.; 23¼ by 30¾in.
- Executed circa 1965/6.
來源
A gift from the Artist and thence by descent to the present owner
Condition
The sheet is attached to the mount with tabs of adhesive tape at the extreme corners and at the centre of each edge. The edges of the sheet are uneven, in keeping with the Artist's working methods and materials. There are Artist's pinholes to the upper corners. There are historic minor nicks to the extreme edges in places, in keeping with the Artist's working methods. The sheet undulates slightly, in keeping with the Artist's materials. There are historic creases at and towards the corners and to the extreme right edge, in keeping with the Artist's working methods. There may be light surface dust. This excepting, the work appears in excellent overall condition. The work is floated and held behind glass in a stained wooden box frame. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
拍品資料及來源
Andrea Rose is preparing the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the Artist's oil paintings, which will be published by Modern Art Press in 2020. ‘London, like the paint I use, seems to be in my blood stream. It's always moving – the skies, the streets, the buildings, the people who walk past me when I draw have become part of my life’
(Leon Kossoff, quoted in Leon Kossoff (exh. cat.), Tate, London, 1996, p.36).
Beginning in the 1950s and continuing throughout his long career, Leon Kossoff repeatedly explored the intimate characteristics of his immediate surroundings and focused his gaze upon the ordinary places that form part of his everyday experience. Continually returning to paint and draw the familiar London scenes around his home, the lively stations, flower stalls, churches and the North London railway, Kossoff's work is enlivened by a tangible and wholly unique sense of familiarity with its subject, capturing the private face of long-lived experience in an active metropolis. Although he frequently returned to draw the same scene twice, the changing mood, light, and the passage of the seasons, all of which he was so acutely aware, prevented him from wandering into the realms of repetition.
His well-rehearsed capturing of the hustle and bustle of London life is brilliantly realised in Willesden Junction - part of an on-going series of paintings and drawings begun in the early 1960s which examine a particular vantage point looking down onto the tangled tracks of the north London railway. Kossoff was intimately acquainted with the scene, as his studio was at the time in Willesden Junction and he lived just a few miles from the station. In the present work, most likely captured by Kossoff in the early morning, looking down over the scene from a bridge, the train tracks surge dynamically into the distance leading our eye up to the silhouette of the cooling towers of the Acton Lane power station to the left, which was demolished in 1993, and the Harlesden Baptist Church to the right. The work is a full and mature composition that seems to writhe under the energies of the thickly applied chalk markings that describe it, the paper itself thoroughly worked. Viewed from above, the tracks funnel towards horizon slicing like a river through the urban landscape. Willesden Junction is an exemplary drawing from the series, revealing the best of Kossoff's long term artistic engagement with London’s metropolis.
(Leon Kossoff, quoted in Leon Kossoff (exh. cat.), Tate, London, 1996, p.36).
Beginning in the 1950s and continuing throughout his long career, Leon Kossoff repeatedly explored the intimate characteristics of his immediate surroundings and focused his gaze upon the ordinary places that form part of his everyday experience. Continually returning to paint and draw the familiar London scenes around his home, the lively stations, flower stalls, churches and the North London railway, Kossoff's work is enlivened by a tangible and wholly unique sense of familiarity with its subject, capturing the private face of long-lived experience in an active metropolis. Although he frequently returned to draw the same scene twice, the changing mood, light, and the passage of the seasons, all of which he was so acutely aware, prevented him from wandering into the realms of repetition.
His well-rehearsed capturing of the hustle and bustle of London life is brilliantly realised in Willesden Junction - part of an on-going series of paintings and drawings begun in the early 1960s which examine a particular vantage point looking down onto the tangled tracks of the north London railway. Kossoff was intimately acquainted with the scene, as his studio was at the time in Willesden Junction and he lived just a few miles from the station. In the present work, most likely captured by Kossoff in the early morning, looking down over the scene from a bridge, the train tracks surge dynamically into the distance leading our eye up to the silhouette of the cooling towers of the Acton Lane power station to the left, which was demolished in 1993, and the Harlesden Baptist Church to the right. The work is a full and mature composition that seems to writhe under the energies of the thickly applied chalk markings that describe it, the paper itself thoroughly worked. Viewed from above, the tracks funnel towards horizon slicing like a river through the urban landscape. Willesden Junction is an exemplary drawing from the series, revealing the best of Kossoff's long term artistic engagement with London’s metropolis.