LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Size Notes:

54.25 x 48in. (137.5 x 122cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Anthony dOffay Gallery, Leon Kossoff, 1988 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, Glasgows Great British Art Exhibition, 1990, p. 90 (illustrated in colour, p. 91; titled Here Comes the Diesel and dated 1988). Venice, XLVI Venice Biennale, British Pavilion, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings, 1995-1996, pp. 32 and 79 (illustrated in colour, p. 33). This exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstverein fr die Rheinlande und Westfalen and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum. London, Tate Gallery, Leon Kossoff, 1996, p. 166, no. 66 (illustrated in colour, p. 121).

Literature:

A. Hicks, New British Art in the Saatchi Collection, London 1989, p. 71, no. 62 (illustrated in colour). R. Cork, 'City of the Heart', in The Times, 27 May 1995. D. Sylvester, Leon Kossoff: Werke 19861994, Dusseldorf 1995 (illustrated in colour, p. 22; titled 'Here Comes the Diesel'). D. Cohen, Kossofs Doubt, in Art in America, December 1995, p. 70 (illustrated in colour, p. 67). J. Hyman, Leon Kossoff, in Tate Magazine, Summer 1996 (illustrated in colour, p. 25). C. Rendell, 'Leon Kossoff', in Contemporary Art, vol. 3, no. 4, Summer 1996, p. 74 (illustrated in colour, p. 73). A. Rose (ed.), Leon Kossoff: London Landscapes, exh. cat., London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 2013-2014 (illustrated in colour, p. 23). A. Dempsey, L. Norman and J. Wullschlager (eds.), Leon Kossoff: A London Life, exh. cat., London, Piano Nobile, 2019, p. 8.

Provenance:

Anthony dOffay Gallery, London. Saatchi Collection, London. Anon. sale, Sothebys London, 2 December 1993, lot 45. Private Collection, Scotland. Anon. sale, Sothebys London, 23 June 2004, lot 7. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.