DONALD FRIEND
1915-1989

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

DONALD FRIEND

1915-1989
Native Boy with Fish 1945

oil on composition board
signed and dated 'Donald Friend / 1945' lower right
50.6 x 60.7 cm

• Lot Sold $20,000 (Hammer Price)
• $24,545 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Donald Friend, Sydney
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Mr D. Macnaught, acquired from the above in December 1946
John Brackenreg, Sydney
Artarmon Galleries, Sydney (label verso)
Dr D.R. Sheumack, Sydney, acquired from the above
Mrs Patricia Sheumack, Sydney, by descent from the above in 1987
Fine Australian and European Paintings, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 26 August 1997, lot 164, 'The Fisher Boy', illustrated
Denis Savill, Sydney, acquired from the above
The Denis Savill Collection of Australian Art, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 10 May 2016, lot 61, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney, Sydney, acquired from the above

Exhibited

Christmas 1946, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 11 December 1946 - 18 January 1947, no. 8, 45 gns
The D.R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney, May - June 1983, no. 31, 'The Fisher Boy'
Margaret Olley & Donald Friend, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 21 January - 19 March 2005
Australia's Most Wanted, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 6 March - 3 April 2005, no. 39, 'The Fisher Boy', illustrated
Donald Friend, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 18 May - 17 June 2006, no. 8, 'The Fisher Boy', illustrated
Donald Friend, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 6-31 March 2012, no. 8, 'Beach Fisherman, Borneo', illustrated

Literature

Paul Haeflinger, 'Realism and the Artist', The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 11 December 1946, p. 11
Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D.R. Sheumack Collection: Eighty Years of Australian Painting, Sotheby's, Sydney, 1988, no. 104, 'The Fisher Boy', illustrated