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 

Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 29 May 1990

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

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

The Bridge, 1982 – 84, mural, 275.0 x 500.0 cm, in the collection of The Brenthurst Library, Johannesburg, South Africa

This work is located in our Melbourne Gallery

Condition:
This work is in excellent, stable and original condition.
The work is housed in its original dark stained timber box frame.