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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  25 Nov 2020 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  68
• Lot Description:
  Leonard French
  (1928-2017)
  The Mass, 1961
  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'
  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
• Provenance:
  Collection of Rudy Komon, Sydney; Collection of the late Sir Warwick and Lady Fairfax, Sydney
• References:
  Vincent Buckley, Leonard French, The Campion Paintings, Grayflower Publications, Melbourne, 1962, pp. 50-51, pl. 13 (illus.)
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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