Title
The fortune teller
(1956)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (1956)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 66.0 x 96.5 cm board; 86.1 x 117.7 x 5.9 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, white oil "DONALD FRIEND". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1956
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9204
- Copyright
- © Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Donald Friend/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Donald Friend
Works in the collection
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About
Donald Friend’s 'The fortune teller' was painted in Brisbane after he and I had been on a painting trip to North Queensland. Donald was looking through Life magazines and saw some photographs of an Indian ceremony which included elephants decorated with elaborate designs. Donald was fascinated and later incorporated the patterns into this painting.
Margaret Olley, 2000
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Donald Friend (1956), Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Jun 1956–Jul 1956
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada, Jul 1957–Sep 1957
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), London Public Library and Art Museum, Canada, Sep 1957–Oct 1957
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Oct 1957–Nov 1957
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada, Nov 1957–Dec 1957
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ottawa, Dec 1957–Jan 1958
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, Feb 1958–Mar 1958
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Apr 1958 -
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina College, Canada, May 1958 -
Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from Australian collections (2000), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 15 Jan 2000–27 Feb 2000
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
Margaret Olley and Donald Friend (2006), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, 09 Nov 2005–15 Jan 2006
Margaret Olley and Donald Friend (2006), S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 21 Jan 2006–19 Mar 2006
Margaret Olley and Donald Friend (2006), Dell Gallery, South Bank, 22 Apr 2006–28 May 2006
Donald Friend: A charmed life, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 09 Nov 2006–04 Feb 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Helen Campbell, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Out of Sydney: city and hinterlands', pg. 185-186, Sydney, 2000, 206 (colour illus.), 300.
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Christine France, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Donald Friend / Margaret Olley', pg. 128-139, Sydney, 2002, 130 (colour illus.), 132, 143, 147.
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Lou Klepac, Donald Friend: a charmed life, Canberra, 2006. Checklist of works.
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Macquarie Galleries, Donald Friend (1956), Sydney, 1956. cat.no. 19
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Purchases and Acquisitions for 1956 National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 1956, 6. cat.no. 6
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Margaret Olley, Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from public and private collections, 'Introduction', pg. 1-3, Sydney, 2000, 2. Catalogue entry appears in inserted list to printed catalogue
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Barry Pearce, Donald Friend Retrospective 1915-1989, Sydney, 1990, 84 (colour illus.). cat.no. 63
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Laurence Thomas., Contemporary Australian painters, 'Foreword', Ottawa, 1957, (illus.). cat.no. 36, illus.no. 10
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Daily telegraph and daily news, Sydney, 30 May 1956.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 30 May 1956.
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