Lot 72

Works are in overall good condition. Handling marks are present, however from the studio of the artist and likely intentional. Each work is housed in a timber frame measuring 61 x 61cm.


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Yuill|Crowley Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

This work comprises 10 individual drawings created by MacPherson under the persona of his alter ego, Robert Pene.

Pene is a grade 4 student at St Joseph's Convent, Nambour, in Queensland. Each sheet includes either a portrait of boxers Tommy Burns or Vic Patrick, a boxing glove, sometimes a caption added in Pene's uncertain script, with the paper deliberately stained to give apparent age from 1947 (a year after Burns and Patrick's most famous fight).