Michael Leonard

Leroy in a Blanket III

1972

Acrylic on canvas, signed and dated (lower right), 44cm x 39cm (67cm x 63cm framed). (This work was kept by the artist for his personal collection. It remained in his collection unti...

Oil on board, 62cm x 42cm, (70cm x 50cm framed). The picture is in good condition. Plummer trained at the Royal Academy Schools in the early 1950s, championed by Stanley Spencer and Sir Herbert Read, he was the recipient of the coveted Leverhulme Scholarship. In a mixed career which included illustration work for The National Trust, anatomical illustration for Guys Hospital and teaching, painting ran parallel to his commercial work. Plummer specialised in the medium of egg tempera, as well as oil painting, a technique little used since the frescos of the Renaissance, he often worked on a large scale, but in tremendous detail, combining Classical iconography and formal composition with visual exploration evocative of William Blake and...

Alkyd-oil on Masonite, signed and dated (middle left), 61cm (diam.), (83cm diam. framed). (This work was kept by the artist for his personal collection. It remained in his collection...

Tempera on board, 87cm x 60cm (framed 106cm x 78cm). Stuart Maxwell Armfield (1916-2000) was renowned for his use of the traditional egg tempera technique, a skilled process that us...

Alkyd-oil on board, 81cm diam., (100cm diam framed). Although most famous for his portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth in the National Portrait Gallery, London, from the late 1970s up un...

Oil on board, signed (lower right), 24.5cm x 19cm (40cm x 35cm framed). Renowned as Australia’s foremost surrealist painter and poet, James Gleeson’s o...

A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Untitled" is a Bay Area Figurative Painting, oil on canvas in a brown and tan palette by American artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed in the...

A painting by Irving Norman. "Supreme Justice" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in a dark palette by artist Irving Norman. The artwork is signed on the verso, "Supreme ...

A painting by Irving Norman. "Farewell" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in a dark palette by Irving Norman. The Lithuanian-American artist Irving Norman was a social s...

A painting by Irving Norman. "Slum Youth" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in blacks and blues by American Post-War artist Irving Norma...

A painting by Irving Norman. "Prisoner" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in blacks and blues by American Post-War artist Irving Norman. The artwork is unsigned. The Lit...

A painting by Irving Norman. "Rural Family" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in blues and greens by American Post-War artist Irving Nor...