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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Works from the Donald Friend Collection - The Property of Attilio Guarrancino, Melbourne
• Sale Date:
  27 Oct 2013 ~ 2pm
• Lot #:
  19
• Lot Description:
  Donald Friend
  (1915 - 1989)
  Attilio, 1950
  ink, wash and pastel on paper
  31.0 x 47.5 cm
  signed, dated and inscribed lower right: Donald Friend ’50 / Hill End; inscribed lower left with Dante love poem
• Exhibited:
  Exhibition of Drawings, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 22 November – 4 December 1950, cat. 8; Retrospective Exhibition to Celebrate his Sixtieth Year as an Artist, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, 18 March – 26 April 1975, cat. 44; Donald Friend Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 February – 25 March 1990; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 14 April – 6 June 1990; and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 26 June – 19 August 1990 (label attached verso)
• References:
  Hughes, R., Donald Friend, Edwards and Shaw, Sydney, 1965, p. 23 (illus.); Hawley, J., ‘The bitter feud of Donald Friend and friend’, Good Weekend: The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 October 1988, p. 53 (illus.); Pearce, B., Donald Friend, 1915–1989: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1990, cat. 48, p. 70 (illus.)
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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