ATTILIO, 1950

Works from the Donald Friend Collection
Sydney
27 October 2013
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DONALD FRIEND

(1915 - 1989)
ATTILIO, 1950

ink, wash and pastel on paper

31.0 x 47.5 cm

signed, dated and inscribed lower right: Donald Friend '50 / Hill End
inscribed lower left with Dante love poem

Estimate: 
$8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $11,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 31 - 27 October 2013, Sydney
Exhibited

Exhibition of Drawings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 22 November – 4 December 1950, cat. 8
Retrospective Exhibition to Celebrate his Sixtieth Year as an Artist, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, 18 March – 26 April 1975, cat. 44
Donald Friend Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 February – 25 March 1990; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 14 April – 6 June 1990; and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 26 June – 19 August 1990 (label attached verso)

Literature

Hughes, R., Donald Friend, Edwards and Shaw, Sydney, 1965, p. 23 (illus.)
Hawley, J.,'The bitter feud of Donald Friend and friend', Good Weekend: The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 October 1988, p. 53 (illus.)
Pearce, B., Donald Friend, 1915–1989: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1990, cat. 48, p. 70 (illus.)