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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 #:
  29
• Lot Description:
  Donald Friend
  (1915 - 1989)
  Self Portrait In A Carved Mirror, 1972
  pen, ink, watercolour and gouache on paper
  75.5 x 55.5 cm
  signed and inscribed lower left: Carved Mirror / Self Portrait / Donald Friend / Bali
• Exhibited:
  Recent Works, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, 17 October – 4 December 1972, cat. 38 (as ‘Reflections in a Balinese Mirror’); 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); Donald Friend, A Charmed Life, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 9 November 2006 – 4 February 2007, final diary l
• References:
  Borlase, N., ‘Story-book worlds’, The Bulletin, Sydney, 28 October 1972; Pearce, B., Donald Friend, 1915–1989: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1990, cat. 88, p. 109 and front cover (illus.); Donald Friend’s Bali, Art Gallery of New South Wales and The Beagle Press, Sydney, 1990, p. 67 (illus.)
• Notes:
  The idea for this composition, which made use of a Balinese mirror in Friend’s collection (see lot 30), probably had its basis in a cartoon sketch in the artist’s diary dated August 1972 which carries the following caption: ‘The Exhibition – he exposes (himself) his subject (himself) and reveals himself.’1 1. Pearce, B., Donald Friend, 1915–1989: Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1990, p. 109
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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