Donald Friend

(1915 - 1989)

VILLAGE DANCERS, LAGOS, NIGERIA, 1939

ink and wash on paper

18.0 x 23.0 cm

signed, dated and inscribed upper left: Da (illeg.) Village. Lagos '39, / Donald. Nigeria.

Estimate:
$1,000 - $2,000

Sold:
$3,360 (inc. BP)

Lot 158

Donald Friend

VILLAGE DANCERS, LAGOS, NIGERIA

, 1939

lot details

Donald Friend (1915 - 1989)
VILLAGE DANCERS, LAGOS, NIGERIA, 1939
ink and wash on paper
18.0 x 23.0 cm
signed, dated and inscribed upper left: Da (illeg.) Village. Lagos '39, / Donald. Nigeria.

Literature

Britain, I. (ed.), The Donald Friend Diaries, Chronicles and Confessions of an Australian Artist, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2010, p. 78 (illus., as 'Yoruba: pulsing rythms')