LEONARD FRENCH
1928-2017
Man Created (1969-1970)
Estimate $20,000 – $30,000
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR RAYMOND KIDD AND MRS DIANA KIDD, SYDNEY
LEONARD FRENCH
1928-2017
Man Created (1969-1970)
enamel on hardboard
signed 'French' lower right
137.5 x 122 cm
frame: original, Len French, Melbourne
- Lot Sold $26,000 (Hammer Price)
- $31,720 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Rudy Komon Art Gallery, Sydney (stock 3030) (label verso)
Mr Raymond Kidd and Mrs Diana Kidd, Melbourne, acquired from the above in November 1971
Exhibited
Leonard French, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 20 September – 20 October 1971, no. 5
Leonard French: 'The Raft' Paintings, University of Melbourne Art Gallery, Melbourne, 1974
A Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 18 April – 24 May 1992, no. 45
Literature
Patrick McCaughey, 'Leonard French's Raft Series', Art and Australia, Ure Smith, Sydney, Vol. 12, No. 4, Autumn 1975, pp. 376 (illustrated), 377
Sasha Grishin, Leonard French, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995, plate 30, pp. 120, 121 (illustrated)
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