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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  13 May 2014 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  25
• Lot Description:
  Donald Friend
  (1915-1989)
  Mother and Child 1947
  oil on canvas
  65.5 x 50.5cm
  signed and dated 'DONALD 47' upper right
• Provenance:
  Mr Norman Schureck, Sydney; The Norman Schureck Collection of Valuable Pictures, James R. Lawson Pty Ltd, Sydney, 27 March 1962, lot 13; Mr John Altmann and Dr Jan Altmann, Melbourne, acquired 1962; The Estate of the Late Dr Jan Altmann, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Annual Exhibition, Society of Artists, Education Department's Gallery, Sydney, 23 August - 10 September 1947, no. 57, 45 gns; 110 years of Australian Art, Farmer's Blaxland Galleries, September 1950, no. 108 (label verso); Norman Schureck Loan Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 May - 29 June 1958, no. 46; Norman Schureck Loan Exhibition, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle, 1958, no. 90
• References:
  Paul Hetherington (ed.), The Diaries of Donald Friend vol. 2 (Jan. 1944 - March 1949), National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2003, p. 539 (entry for 23 August 1947)
• Estimate:
  A$40,000 - 50,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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