Michael Leonard British, 1933-2023
A Good Age; Tolstoy, 1977

£2,000

Dr Martin’s watercolour
Signed (verso)
33 × 28 cm (50 × 40 cm in mount)
Unframed

Original artwork for the book ‘A Good Age’, Crown Publishing, 1977. “In 1976 the publishers Mitchell Beazley commissioned me to illustrate A Good Age, Dr Alex Comfort’s primer on how to grow old gracefully. Drawing on a wide range of photographic reference, I produced a number of portraits of well known people who had managed to retain their vigour well into old age. Once again I used Dr Martin’s Watercolours, a brush and liberal amounts of water to create a set of vignettes that could comfortably be integrated with blocks of text.” (Michael Leonard)