Leonard William French - Artist Info

About Leonard William French

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    Leonard French, (1928 - 2017),

    The following excerpts are from Arnold, M., ‘‘The Bridge’, by Leonard French, Melbourne’, reproduced at https:// www.brenthurst.org.za/the-bridge/ ‘

    By the time he received the commission from Harry Frederick Oppenheimer for The Brenthurst Library, South Africa [for which the present work is the study], French had established a distinctive relationship between form and content, favouring a stylised schema of representation married to themes where opposing forces were distributed in conceptual and visual tension.

    Leonard French visited South Africa in 1982. The Bridge was generated by his travels and observations at a time when attempts were being made to restructure rather than disma...

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