
Works on Paper
Michael Leonard 'Edward Lucie-Smith C18th Botoni'
Michael Leonard 'Edward Lucie-Smith C18th Botoni'
Michael Leonard British, 1933-2023
Edward Lucie-Smith C18th Botoni, 2012
£7,000
Pencil on paper
Signed and dated (upper right)
30 × 24.5 cm (59 × 51 cm framed)
Provenance:
Kept by the artist for his personal collection. It remained in his collection until his death in July 2023
Lucie-Smith and Michael were old friends who lived close to each other in West Kensington. Edward Lucie-Smith, is a Jamaican-born English writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and photographer. He has been highly prolific in these fields, writing or editing over a hundred books, his subjects gradually shifting around the late 1960s from mostly literature to mostly art.