graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm
This most recent addition to the gallery features the palely
loitering Ilija Petkovic, who appeared in both the FKS & Panini ‘World Cup
1974’ collectors’ albums, & was selected for inclusion in the Yugoslavia
squad for the tournament, where he played in the first five of his country’s
matches (although merely as an 84th minute substitute against West
Germany in the opening second phase fixture), scoring once in the 9 – 0 rout of
Zaire, only missing the final inconsequential defeat to Sweden (interestingly, the only one of those four named states to still exist as such).
Choosing the sticker from the FKS album from which to make
an enlarged photocopy to serve as the immediate visual reference for the
drawing process resulted in a most ghostly image, highly suitable for another
of the many players who made no inroads into my consciousness at the time of my
experience of the television coverage of the ’74 World Cup &, indeed,
remained unheard-of until coming into relatively recent possession of the sticker
albums that both preview & commemorate the event: given such a source, the
drawing consequently condemns the portrait
subject to remain in a state of some obscurity.
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