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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Timed Online Auction | Modern + Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  04 Oct 2022 ~ 7pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  28
• Lot Description:
  Leonard French
  (1928 - 2017)
  The Bridge, 1983
  enamel on hessian on composition board 
  122.5 x 244.0 cm; 128.5 x 250.0 cm (frame)
  signed lower right: French; inscribed on artist's label verso: 1983 / Study for the Oppenheimer Mural / Brenthurst Library Johannesburg / South Africa 
• Provenance:
  Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne; Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne; The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 29 May 1990 
• Exhibited:
  Leonard French 'The Bridge', Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, 28 September – 17 October 1985 (illus. on exhibition invitation); The Bus Collection of Australian Art, Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales, 16 March – 12 April 1992, cat. 58; Morning, Noon and Night, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 13 July - 13 October 2019; Leonard French 'The Bridge', Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 3 November 2018 – 3 March 2019; on long term loan to Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria 
• References:
  Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 130 (illus.), 219
• Notes:
  Related Work: 'The Bridge,' 1982 – 84, mural, 275.0 x 500.0 cm, in the collection of The Brenthurst Library, Johannesburg, South Africa  
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 50,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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