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

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

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)’)