Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 330

Price Realized: $ 20,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

MICHAEL LEONARD (1933-)


Dressing 29.
Pencil on white wove paper. 203x190 mm; 8x7½ inches (wide margins). Initialed and dated in pencil center left recto. 1981.

Illustrated: "Changing 50 Drawings by Michael Leonard," Michael Leonard, Edward Lucie-Smith, Gay Men's Press, London, 1983.

Provenance: private collection, New York.

Leonard's tonal drawings capture figures in motion, often doing quotidian tasks, and are a study of the subtle interactions of muscle, bone and sinew.