Title
recto: Self portrait on Balinese door (Donald Friend) verso: Jungle motif with devotional figure (I Made Jojol)
1978
Artists
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sanur Beach
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Sanur
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Bali
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Indonesia
- Date
- 1978
- Media categories
- Painting , Woodwork , Sculpture
- Materials used
- recto: oil, gold leaf on wooden door with carved frame verso: carved jackfruit tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
- Dimensions
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158.5 x 51.8 cm sight (painted door); 165.5 x 55.0 cm carved door; 203.0 x 93.8 x 24.5 cm door overall
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0 - Whole, 203 x 93.8 x 25 cm, Door overall, including frame and plinth/base.
0 - Whole, 158.5 x 51.8 cm, Sight dimensions of painted door panel.
0 - Whole, 165.5 x 55 cm, Door panel with carving.
b - plinth/base, 24.5 x 93.8 x 25 cm, Plinth/Base overall.
a - door, 178.5 x 83.5 x 10.7 cm, Door overall.
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by Carole Muller and the Pissarro Dinner Fund 2005
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 327.2005.a-b
- Copyright
- © Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Donald Friend/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Donald Friend
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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I Made Jojol
Works in the collection
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About
Donald Friend first visited Bali in 1966, later deciding to settle there at Sanur Beach where he built his Batujimbar Estate. Painted and carved respectively by Friend and Balinese sculptor I Made Jojol, this door was situated either in the museum or the guest pavilion that Friend created. In the upper section Friend has created a mocking portrait of himself as a Balinese prince, sitting in the lalita asana yoga pose; while the lower part was inspired by traditional Indonesian motifs.
Reflecting his great love and appreciation of Bali, Friend commissioned the young Jojol to carve the verso of this work. The subject presumably relates to a legend connected with his mountain village. A princely figure in a doorway holds his palms together in the Balinese gesture of respect; contrasting with the surrounding riot of animals and foliage in a whimsical, asymmetric composition.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Australian Artists in Bali: 1930s to Now, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, 20 Sep 2015–29 Nov 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2006, 'Year in review: Australian art', pg. 20-22, Sydney, 2006, 20, 21 (colour illus.).
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Foundation Newsletter #7, 'Camille Pissarro preview Fundraising Dinner', Sydney, Dec 2005, (colour illus.).
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Rodney James, Australian artists in Bali: 1930s to now, Langwarrin, 2015, 33 (colour illus.), 65.
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Rodney James, Australian artists in Bali: 1930s to now, 'The first and second wave 1930-1990', pg. 8-38, Langwarrin, 2015, 16, 33 (colour illus.), 65.
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David Robson, Beyond Bawa: Modern mastersworks of monsoon Asia, '7. Bali interlude', pg. 73-84, London, 2007, 84 (colour illus.).
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