Leonard French (1928 - 2017)

JOURNEY OF THE BULL, 2000 - 01

(from THE MINOAN PAINTINGS)

enamel on hessian on board

76.5 x 102.5 cm

signed lower left: French

Estate of Leonard French, Victoria
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2019

Leonard French: The Minoan Paintings, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 20 September – 7 October 2001 and Sydney, 16 – 31 October 2001

Explaining the reasons for the Minoan works Len stated: ‘I began as a young man painting from the Greek myths and legends of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Now I have come back to the Greeks and looked at what came before – the Minoans – a civilisation that was brought to an end in the 2nd millennium BC as a result of a volcanic eruption of cataclysmic proportions. These paintings are my response’. 1

1. MacDonald, R., The Boy from Brunswick: Leonard French, a Biography, Australian Scholarly Press, Melbourne, 2018, p. 483

This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery