Michael Leonard British, 1933-2023
Night Pictures, c.1975

£4,750

Pencil on paper
Dated ‘Oct 22’ (lower right)
28cm x 20cm (44cm x 35cm framed)

This is an early work by Michael in which he is exploring a repeated motif in his work, dressing and undressing. The work is from the 1970s, and explores Michael repeated motif or dressing and undressing. It is a transitional piece in that although it is not one of his highly finished 'tonal' or colour drawings, the main figure has elements of tonal shading. It is considerably developed more than one of Michael's line drawings. You can see from the smaller compositions around the edge that he was exploring different pictures. In 1976, he created at least one coloured pencil drawing called 'dressing at night'. his note in the top right corner, suggest that he was exploring creating coloured drawings.