DONALD FRIEND
1915-1989

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE DAVID CLARKE AO, SYDNEY

DONALD FRIEND

1915-1989
(Australian Fantasy) (1964)

oil and gold leaf on composition board
signed 'DONALD FRIEND' lower right
62 x 90.5 cm

• Lot Sold $135,000 (Hammer Price)
• $164,700 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Mr and Mrs Richard C. Crebbin, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney
Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1991
Important Australian and International Art, Deutscher and Hackett, Sydney, 28 April 2010, lot 41, illustrated
Mr David Clarke AO, Sydney, acquired from the above
The Estate of the Late David Clarke AO, Sydney

Exhibited

Donald Friend 1915-1989 Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 February - 25 March 1990, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 14 April - 6 June 1980, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 26 June - 19 August 1990, no. 79, '(Australian Fanstasy)', illustrated (label verso)
20th Century Australian and New Zealand Painting, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, 22 August - 28 September 1991, no. 32, '(Australian Fantasy)', illustrated
The Art of Gold, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 28 November 1997 - 1 February 1998, no. 54

Literature

Barry Pearce with contributions by Lou Klepac, Hendrik Kolenberg, Amanda Beresford and John Thompson, Donald Friend 1915-1989 Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1990, p. 101 (illustrated)
Claire Baddeley, The Art of Gold, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 1997, p. 18