LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on cardboard

Measurements:

29.92 in. (76.00 cm.) (height) by 22.05 in. (56.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'DONALD / 49' centre right

Exhibited:

Society of Artists' Annual Exhibition, Education Department, Sydney, 21 August - 8 September 1948, cat. no. 55, titled as Aimez moi, matelot~Retrospective, Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, 18 March - 26 April 1975, cat. no. 34 ~Merioola and After, touring exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 12 July - 17 August 1986; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, 29 August - 5 October 1986; Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, 17 October - 16 November 1986, cat. No. 23 ~Donald Friend: Retrospective, touring exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 February - 25 March 1990; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 14 April - 6 June 1990; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 26 June - 19 August 1990, cat. No. 38 ~The Artists of Hill End, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July - 17 September 1995, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, 6 October - 19 November 1995, New England Regional Art Gallery, Armidale, 10 February - 31 March 1996, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Broken Hill, 19 April - 26 May 1996, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, 7 June - 29 July 1996, cat. No. 21~Donald Friend: A Charmed Life, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 9 November 2006 - 4 February 2007 ~~

Literature:

Society of artists impresses', Sun, Sydney, 20 August 1948 ~'Society of Artists', Bulletin, Sydney, 25 August 1948 ~Sunday Sun, Sydney, 20 February 1949 (illus.)~Christine France, Merioola and After, exh. cat., S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1986, pp. 7, 24 ~Barry Pearce, 'Donald Friend', Art and Australia, vol.27, no.3, Autumn 1990, pp. 408-413 (illus.)~Barry Pearce, Donald Friend, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1990, pp. 60-61 (illus.), 146~Gavin Wilson, The Artists of Hill End, exh. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995, pp.47 (illus.), 49, 52-53~Paul Hetherington (ed), The Diaries of Donald Friend: vol.2, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2003, pp. xi, 603-4, 607-9 ~Lou Klepac, Donald Friend: a charmed life, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2006 (illus.)~~

Provenance:

Kym Bonython, Adelaide~Rudy Komon, Sydney~Richard Crebbin Snr, Sydney~By descent~Joan Crebbin and Richard Crebbin Jnr, Sydney~Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne ~The Reg Grundy AC OBE and Joy Chambers-Grundy Collection, acquired in 1991~~