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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Michèle Asprey Collection of Australian Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2013 ~ 4pm
• Lot #:
  20
• Lot Description:
  Robert Macpherson
  (Born 1937)
  A Cumulos Cloud (sic), from the series 555 Frog Poems by Robert Pene
  charcoal drawing on paper
  29.25cm high x 31cm wide
  signed Robert Pene, St Joseph's Convent
• Provenance:
  Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Contemporary Collection Benefactors (CCB) auction, donated by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
• Notes:
  Robert MacPherson was born in 1937 in Brisbane. Inspired by the American Abstract Expressionism, he began his artistic career by experimenting with colour field painting. He first exhibited his work in 1973 and has exhibited regularly since then throughout Australia. His practice operates in the spaces between language and image, high and low art, the sacred and profane. The two drawings by MacPherson in this collection belong to a prolific series of drawings, 555 Frog Poems, which pretend to be the work of Robert Pene, a grade IV student at St Joseph Convent and ripped from a schoolboy's notebook with merit stamps visible. It is a kind of alter ego for MacPherson who, like Pene was also convent educated.
• Estimate:
  A$3,500 - 5,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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