Donald Friend
(1915 - 1989)
STILL LIFE WITH A FIGURE, c.1986
watercolour and ink on paper
57.0 x 76.0 cm (sheet)
79.5 x 98.5 cm (frame)
signed and inscribed with title upper right: Still Life with a/Figure/Donald Friend
Estimate:
$6,000 - $9,000
Sold:
$7,364 (inc. BP)
© Donald Friend/Copyright Agency 2022
lot details
79.5 x 98.5 cm (frame)
Australian Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso, stock no.3580)
Private collection
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 8 August 2000, lot 75
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Donald Friend, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 10 August – 1 September 1987, cat. 14
Breathing Space, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2 July – 6 November 2011
Literature
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 19, 125 (illus.), 219
Condition:
This work is in excellent, stable and original condition.
The paper sheet appears to be laid down
Under ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of past restoration.
The work is float mounted and housed in a gilt frame with wide linen slip under Perspex.