Lot 32

In very good condition with no visible faults to report. Framed behind perspex, with a dark box frame overall size 118 x 95cm.
(LEONARD JOEL DELIVERY SIZE: MEDIUM)


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Australian Galleries, Melbourne 2016
Private collection, Melbourne

Melbourne born artist, Peter Wegner, is best known for his armchair 'portraits'. Working with themes of absence, love and loss "each of these chairs bear the marks and scars of their particular history and through Wegner's close observation and reverence for his subject, we feel the sitter profoundly present in the representation of their absence." (Peter Wegner - Artist Statement)

Peter Wegner won the 2021 Archibald Price for his portrait of artist, Guy Warren.