Donald Friend
(1915 - 1989)
OH DOKTOR MAN, 1988
gouache, watercolour, pastel and ink on paper
62.0 x 48.0 cm
92.5 x 76.5 cm (frame)
signed and dated upper right: Donald Friend/ '88
bears inscription with title upper right: ‘O DOKtOR MANN, YOU ARE A FUNNY MAN/YOU
MAKE ME SMILE AS OFtEN AS YOU CAN./As I WAS WAlKING ON THE BANKS/OF THE NILE, I SAW thE little CROCOdiVE.” (MOTET.)/(A VERSE Taught ME by PRINCE OMAR Ali ChowdhuRY.)
Estimate:
$4,000 - $6,000
Sold:
$3,682 (inc. BP)
© Donald Friend/Copyright Agency 2022
lot details
92.5 x 76.5 cm (frame)
bears inscription with title upper right: ‘O DOKtOR MANN, YOU ARE A FUNNY MAN/YOU
MAKE ME SMILE AS OFtEN AS YOU CAN./As I WAS WAlKING ON THE BANKS/OF THE NILE, I SAW thE little CROCOdiVE.” (MOTET.)/(A VERSE Taught ME by PRINCE OMAR Ali ChowdhuRY.)
Private collection
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 9 November 1999, lot 224
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 11 November 1999
Literature
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, p. 219