LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's… 顯示更多 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF KEITH CRITCHLOW
LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)

Children's Swimming Pool

細節
LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)
Children's Swimming Pool
felt-tip pen on paper
23 3/8 x 26 in. (59.4 x 66 cm.)
Executed circa 1970-72.
來源
Acquired directly from the artist by Keith Critchlow.
注意事項
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

榮譽呈獻

Pippa Jacomb
Pippa Jacomb Head of Day Sale

拍品專文

Keith Critchlow met Kossoff when they studied together at St Martin’s and the Royal College of Art in the 1950s, and they remained life-long friends. It was Critchlow who also encouraged Frank Bowling to take up painting, after meeting him on national service in the RAF and inviting him to live with his family. Critchlow was a talented artist in his own right but chose to pursue a career in academia, becoming a professor of art and architecture, a highly respected author and an expert in sacred geometry. Critchlow also owned Head of Frank Auerbach, 1956, by Leon Kossoff, which is being offered in the Modern British Art Evening Sale on 1 March, Lot 1.


Kossoff painted six oil paintings of this subject. The present work closely resembles the compositions of Children's Swimming Pool, Autumn Afternoon, 1971 (Tate, London), and Children's Swimming Pool, Autumn, 1972 (Arts Council Collection, London).

We are very grateful to Andrea Rose for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry. Andrea Rose is the editor of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings of Leon Kossoff due to be published by Modern Art Press in 2021.

更多來自 現代英國藝術(日間拍賣)

查看全部
查看全部