Lot #48 - Donald Friend
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Auction House:Deutscher and Hackett
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Sale Name:Timed Auction | Part II: Modern + Contemporary Art from the Cbus Collection of Australian Art
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Sale Date:09 Aug 2022 ~ 7pm (AEST)
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Lot #:48
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Lot Description: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.) -
Provenance: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
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References:Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, p. 219
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Notes:This work is located in our Sydney Gallery
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Estimate:A$4,000 - 6,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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