Michael Leunig 'Untitled (Moving House)' black & white

Michael Leunig 'Untitled (Moving House)' black & whiteFor more than fifty years, Michael Leunig gently and brilliantly skewered the absurdities of everyday life. Now, as one of Australias most cherished and quietly missed voices, his work feels more luminous than ever. An absurd scene of a family using a house as an umbrella, this work speaks directly to Leunig's witty sense of a humour. This petite 5 3 cm original image is small in scale but full of heart, insight and that unmistakable Leunig spirit.

this engraving was never published and it was considered a major loss until 1980

sometimes appearing playful

At its most basic

Abstracted into contemporary art

flowers and hearts erupting around them

Michael Fitzgerald’s ‘Lost Cape’ is a moody landscape

Merging sentiment with pathos

titled and editioned in margin

Embossed with a Port Jackson Press Australia seal bottom right

and has been widely exhibited and written about

Amor creates a palpable sense of motion and tension - the dominant figure raises his fist

Leda and the Swan recurs throughout art history