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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 22, 2025 | Christie's | London | Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale | 30 | $****** - ****** | Nude on a Red Bed, Summer | |||
Apr 22, 1998 | Christie's | London | Contemporary Art | 45 | $****** - ****** | Nude on red bed |
paintings
76.8 x 137.2 cm (30.25 x 54 in)
oil on board
Victor Waddington, 1972.
with Fischer Fine Art, London, where purchased by Stuart Barovick in 1986.
with Anthony d"Offay, London, 1991.
Anonymous sale; Christie"s, London, 22 April 1998, lot 45.
with Gallery K, Oslo.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby"s, London, 22 June 2007, lot 222.
with L.A. Louver, Venice, California, where purchased by the present owner in November 2022.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Leon Kossoff: Recent Paintings , January - February 1972, p. 41, no. 34, illustrated.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Pictures for an Exhibition, March - May 1980, no. 23.
Oslo, British Council, Kunstnernes Hus, A School of London: Six Figurative Painters , May - June 1987, p. 84, no. 59, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, June - August.
Edinburgh, British Council, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj , July - September 1995, p. 142, no. 26, illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Luxembourg, Musée National d"Histoire et d"Art, September - November; Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, November 1995 - January 1996; and Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Catalunya, La Pedrera, February - April.
London, Tate Gallery, Leon Kossoff , June - September 1996, pp. 85, 165, no. 41, illustrated, as "Nude on a Red Bed".
Copenhagen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Corner 1998 , December 1997 - January 1998, exhibition not numbered, illustrated, as "Nude on a Red Bed".
Venice, California, L.A. Louver, Figuration: Paintings and Drawings - Tony Bevan, William Brice, Rebecca Campbell, Richard Diebenkorn, Charles Garabedian, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Alice Neel , November - December 2010, no catalogue.
Venice, California, L.A. Louver, Evolver , June - August 2018, no catalogue.
Exhibition catalogue, Summer 1994: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture , London, Anthony d"Offay Gallery, 1994, pl. 36, as "Nude on a Red Bed".
R. Cork, "Capital Deposit North of the Border", The Times , 11 July 1995.
"Remembering Leon Kossoff through His Scenes of Anxiety and Disquiet", ARTnews , 5 July 2019, illustrated, as "Nude on a Red Bed".
A. Rose, Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings , London, 2021, p. 178, no. 103, illustrated.
LEON KOSSOFF (1926-2019)
Nude on a Red Bed, Summer
oil on board
30 ¼ x 54 in. (76.8 x 137.2 cm.)
Painted in 1969.
