HILL END, c.1942

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
28 August 2024
42

DONALD FRIEND

(1915 - 1989)
HILL END, c.1942

oil on board

18.5 x 24.0 cm

signed lower left: DONALD
signed upper left: Donald Friend.
inscribed with title verso: Hill End

Estimate: 
$8,000 – $12,000
Sold for $9,818 (inc. BP) in Auction 79 - 28 August 2024, Melbourne
Provenance

Tony and Ann Shaw
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, c.1989 (label attached verso, as ‘Hills End’)
Private collection, Perth
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 22 August 1994, lot 46 (as ‘Soldiers Making a Bonfire (Hill End)’)
Private collection
Christie’s, Melbourne, 22 August 2005, lot 122A (as ‘Soldiers Making a Bonfire (Hill End)’)
Savill Galleries, Sydney (label attached verso, as ‘Soldiers Making a Bonfire (Hill End)’)
Sotheby’s, Sydney, 10 May 2016, lot 5 (as ‘Soldiers Making a Bonfire’)
John Barnes, Melbourne, acquired from the above
The Estate of John Barnes, Melbourne

Exhibited

Australian Modernism: The Complexity and the Diversity, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 30 July – 28 August 1992, cat. 19 (illus. in exhibition catalogue p. 18, as ‘(Soldiers Making a Bonfire), c.1945’)
Donald Friend, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 18 May – 17 June 2006, cat. 6 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, as ‘Soldiers Making a Bonfire (Hills End), c.1950’)
Donald Friend, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 6 – 31 March 2012, cat. 6 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, ‘Soldiers Making a Bonfire (Hills End)')