Merryn Schriever
Managing Director, Australia
Lot 68
Leonard French(1928-2017)The Mass, 1961
25 November 2020, 18:00 AEDT
Melbourne, ArmadaleSold for AU$67,650 inc. premium
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Leonard French (1928-2017)
The Mass, 1961
titled and inscribed verso: 'THE MASS / LEN-FRENCH / OWNED BY THE RUDY THOMPSON GALLERIES'
enamel on hessian on composition board
229.0 x 183.5cm (90 3/16 x 72 1/4in).
titled and inscribed verso: 'THE MASS / LEN-FRENCH / OWNED BY THE RUDY THOMPSON GALLERIES'
enamel on hessian on composition board
229.0 x 183.5cm (90 3/16 x 72 1/4in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Collection of Rudy Komon, Sydney
Collection of the late Sir Warwick and Lady Fairfax, Sydney
EXHIBITED
12 Paintings on the Life of Edmund Campion, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 1961, cat. 4 N.F.S.
12 Paintings on the Life of Edmund Campion, Argus Gallery, Melbourne, 23 October - 3 November 1961, cat. 4 N.F.S.
Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary, touring exhibition, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 17 - 31 March, 1962; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 23 September - 24 October 1962; Tate Britain, England, 24 January - 3 March 1963, cat. 112 (label attached verso)
Leonard French, Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, Kensington, London, 21 March - 16 April 1967
LITERATURE
Vincent Buckley, Leonard French, The Campion Paintings, Grayflower Publications, Melbourne, 1962, pp. 50-51, pl. 13 (illus.)
