Barry the Cat

Details

JOHN SPOONER (B. 1946)
Barry the Cat
signed ‘SPOONER’ (lower right) and stamped with date ’10 APR 1986’ (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and black ink, grey wash, on paper
9 ¾ x 7 in. (24.9 x 17.9 cm.)

Literature

J. Spooner, Bodies and Souls, Caricatures, Drawings and Prints, 1989, Melbourne, p.50, illustrated.

Conditions of sale

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Benedict Winter Director, Specialist

Descrizione dettagliata lotto

In his foreword to Spooner's 1989 book, Barry Humphries says of the artist's work: 'They are, in fact, ill-described as cartoons, since they are very finished drawings. If Will Dyson was, in the past, Australia's most gifted political draughtsman, Spooner is his successor... he has invented a style that one might call 'romantic grotesquerie' - a style eminently suited to his sitters.', J. Spooner, op-cit, p. vii.

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