Abstract : In this paper we analyse an infimal convolution type regularisation functional called $$\mathrm {TVL}^{\infty }$$, based on the total variation ($$\mathrm {TV}$$) and the $$\mathrm {L}^{\infty }$$ norm of the gradient. The functional belongs to a more general family of $$\mathrm {TVL}^{p}$$ functionals ($$1