Donald Friend
(Australia 06 Feb 1915–16 Aug 1989)
- Title
- Head of a woman
- Year
- 1945
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pen and brown ink, wash on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
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37.6 x 25.3cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated u.r., pen and brown ink "Donald. 45.".
- Credit
- Purchased 1946
- Accession number
- 7649
- Copyright
- © Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Donald Friend
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
'Head of a woman' is a remarkable portrait by Donald Friend, made after a period spent in the army during World War Two, a time when he re-directed his work towards realism. Friend's objective and dispassionate observation of his subject has resulted in a sensitive and revealing image of dignified old age. There are over thirty drawings by Friend in the Gallery's collection.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
- Bibliography (6)
-
Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Donald Friend: a charmed life, Canberra, 2006. Checklist of works.
'On drawing' by Elizabeth Cross, pg. 22-27., Look Aug 2005, Aug 2005, 27 (colour illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Donald Friend Retrospective 1915-1989, Sydney, 1990, 50, 51 (illus.). cat.no. 26
'Drawing it all together' by Anne Ryan, pg. 28-29., Look Oct 1997, Oct 1997, 28 (illus.).
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Domain, 1997, 80 (illus.). cat.no. 71
Terence Maloon (Australia) (Editor), Peter Raissis (Australia) (Editor), Michelangelo to Matisse: Drawing the figure, Domain, 1999, 58, 59 [colour illus.]. fig. 31; cat.no. 139
- Exhibition history (6)
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Donald Friend Retrospective 1915-1989, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 09 Feb 1990–25 Mar 1990.
Donald Friend Retrospective 1915-1989, National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], 14 Apr 1990–06 Jun 1990.
Donald Friend Retrospective 1915-1989, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 26 Jun 1990–19 Aug 1990.
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998.
Michelangelo to Matisse: Drawing the figure, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 Nov 1999–27 Feb 2000.
Donald Friend: A charmed life, National Library of Australia, 09 Nov 2006–04 Feb 2007.
