Lot #28 - Donald Friend
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Auction House:Deutscher and Hackett
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Sale Name:Works from the Donald Friend Collection - The Property of Attilio Guarrancino, Melbourne
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Sale Date:27 Oct 2013 ~ 2pm
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Lot #:28
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Lot Description:Donald Friend
(1915 - 1989)
Horse And Chariot, c1963–64
copper
51.0 cm length -
Notes:… Friend began to construct sculptural figures from beaten sheet aluminium when he was living in Ceylon, and exhibited a collection of them in Colombo in 1962. During 1963 and 1964, he adapted his technique to sheet copper, and produced a further exhibition of sculptures and fountains. Surprised personages in Greek masks balance on reeling chariots; soldiers, caught leaping in mid-air, pour from the chest of the Trojan horse… the sculptures convincingly trap the movement of a figures, the thrust of an arm or a leg, the sense of rising, falling or plunging in space. They are not so much sculptures, however, as three-dimensional drawings made with copper lines in the air.1 1. Hughes, R., Donald Friend, Edwards and Shaw, Sydney, 1965, pp. 74, 76
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Estimate:A$10,000 - 15,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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