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Leonard French
(1928-2017)
The Mass, 1961

Important Australian Art
25 November 2020, 18:00 AEDT
Melbourne, Armadale

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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).

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.)

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