Donald Friend
(Australia 06 Feb 1915–16 Aug 1989)
- Title
- The fortune teller
- Year
- (1956)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas on hardboard
- Dimensions
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66.0 x 96.5cm board; 86.1 x 117.7 x 5.9cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. corner, white oil "DONALD FRIEND". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1956
- Accession number
- 9204
- Copyright
- © AGNSW
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
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
- Bibliography (10)
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Lou Klepac (Australia; Croatia, b.1936) (Author), Donald Friend: a charmed life, Canberra, 2006. Checklist of works.
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, Domain, 2002, 130 (colour illus.), 132, 143, 147.
Margaret Olley (Australia, b.1923, d.2011) (Author), Barry Humphries (Australia, b.1934) (Author), Deborah Hart (South Africa; United Kingdom; Australia, b.1959) (Director), Christine France (Australia) (Co-ordinator), Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from public and private collections, Sydney, 2000, 2. Catalogue entry appears in inserted list to printed catalogue
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 206 (colour illus.), 300.
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Donald Friend Retrospective 1915-1989, Sydney, 1990, 84 (colour illus.). cat.no. 63
Laurie Thomas (Australia, b.1915, d.1974) (Author), Contemporary Australian painters, Ottawa, 1957, (illus.). cat.no. 36, illus.no. 10
Daily telegraph and daily news 30 May 1956, 30 May 1956.
The Sydney Morning Herald 30 May 1956, 30 May 1956.
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Purchases and Acquisitions for 1956 National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 1956, 6. cat.no. 6
Macquarie Galleries (Australia, estab. 1925, closed 1993) (Author), Donald Friend (1956), Sydney, 1956. cat.no. 19
- Exhibition history (15)
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Donald Friend (1956), Macquarie Galleries, Jun 1956–Jul 1956.
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), Winnipeg Art Gallery, Jul 1957–Sep 1957.
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), London Public Library and Art Museum, Sep 1957–Oct 1957.
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), Art Gallery of Hamilton, Oct 1957–Nov 1957.
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Nov 1957–Dec 1957.
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Dec 1957–Jan 1958.
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Feb 1958–Mar 1958.
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), The Art Gallery of Toronto, Apr 1958 -.
Contemporary Australian Painters (1957), The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina College, May 1958 -.
Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from Australian collections (2000), S.H. Ervin Gallery, 15 Jan 2000–27 Feb 2000.
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003.
Margaret Olley and Donald Friend (2006), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 09 Nov 2005–15 Jan 2006.
Margaret Olley and Donald Friend (2006), S.H. Ervin Gallery, 21 Jan 2006–19 Mar 2006.
Margaret Olley and Donald Friend (2006), Dell Gallery, 22 Apr 2006–28 May 2006.
Donald Friend: A charmed life, National Library of Australia, 09 Nov 2006–04 Feb 2007.
