Sale 2514 - The Pride Sale, June 20, 2019

226 c MICHAEL LEONARD (1933-) Untitled illustration for The Joy of Gay Sex. Original double-page color illustration published on pages 30-31 in Charles Silverstein and Edmund White’s The Joy of Gay Sex, (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1977). Colored pencil on paper. 8 1 / 2 x11 1 / 4 inches, 21.2x28.5 cm. image, archivally framed and matted to 16x19 inches. Initialed and dated in image, lower right. [6,000/9,000] Exhibited and sold at Robert Samuel Gallery, NY, with their stamp on verso. A copy of the 1977 paperback edition by Simon and Schuster accompanies the artwork. 226 227 c MICHAEL LEONARD (1933-) Man Reaching Down: Tondo. Pencil on heavy wove paper, 1989. 12 1 / 2 x11 1 / 8 inches, 35.1x28 cm. Initialed and dated in pencil center left recto. [2,500/3,500] Leonard’s tonal drawings capture figures in motion, often doing quotidian tasks, and are a study of the subtle interactions of muscle, bone and sinew. He completed a same-titled painting in 1986. Ex- collection Fischer Fine Art Limited, London, with the label on the frame back. 227