Donald Friend
(Australia 06 Feb 1915–16 Aug 1989)
- Title
- An exotic garden viewed at different levels
- Other titles:
- (An exotic garden) pair of doors
- Year
- (1957)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil and mixed media on pair of doors with glass panels
- Dimensions
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two doors: each door 183.0 x 45.0cm; 183.0 x 90.0cm overall; 192cm x 96.5cm x 16.9cm frame:
a - left door; 183 x 45cm; left door
b - right door; 183 x 45cm; right door
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Accession number
- 198.1988.a-b
- Copyright
- © Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Donald Friend
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (8)
-
David Robson (Author), Beyond Bawa: Modern mastersworks of monsoon Asia, London, 2007, 46 (colour illus.). Photo of the door located in the corridor of Geoffrey Bawa's Colombo residence.
Australian High Commission, The art of Donald Friend Ceylon, Colombo, 2004, 2 (colour illus.), 48.
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, Domain, 2002, 17 (colour illus.), 143, 147.
Enter Art 2000, 2000, cover (colour illus.), sheet number 5 (colour illus.). Education kit produced by the NSW Dept of Education and Training as teaching resource for primary school teachers.
Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Bruce James (Australia) (Author), John McDonald (Australia, b.1961) (Author), Peter Pinson (Australia, b.1943) (Author), Gavin Fry (Author), Sasha Grishin AM (Australia) (Author), Deborah Hart (South Africa; United Kingdom; Australia, b.1959) (Author), Australian painters of the twentieth century, Roseville, 2000, 120 (colour illus.), 121.
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 207 (colour illus.), 300.
Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 64 (colour illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Donald Friend Retrospective 1915-1989, Sydney, 1990, 86, 87b (colour illus.). cat.no. 66
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003.
