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Lot 164

David C. Leonard
(born 1962)
Mirage

26 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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David C. Leonard (born 1962)

Mirage
signed 'David C. Leonard' (in pencil on the reverse); identified and alternatively titled 'The Towers' (on a handwritten label affixed to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
36 x 38 3/16 x 1 15/16 in. (91.5 x 97.0 x 5.0 cm)
Painted circa 1998.

Footnotes

Exhibited
Boston, Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, April 5-May 25, 1999, awarded the Gamblin Artists Color Award.

Literature
Peter, Eliza, and Belinda Rathbone,  Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show (Boston, 1999), exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 15.

N.B.
Leonard wrote of this work in his entry in the 1999 Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show: 'The primary subjects of my paintings are 20th-century man's working monuments, which represent our culture's dedication to production and consumption. It is not my intention to either glorify or to condemn this objective, but to invite contemplation and leave judgment up to the viewer. The paintings are meant to be ambiguous - they can be seen as an indictment of human waste and contemporary alienation, or, simultaneously, they can be understood as silent tributes to the fundamental tools of our society that we all too often ignore.'

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