Title
An exotic garden viewed at different levels
(1957)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- (An exotic garden) pair of doors
- Date
- (1957)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil and mixed media on pair of doors with glass panels
- Dimensions
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two doors: each door 183.0 x 45.0 cm; 183.0 x 90.0 cm overall; 192 cm x 96.5 cm x 16.9 cm frame
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a - left door, 183 x 45 cm, left door
b - right door, 183 x 45 cm, right door
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 198.1988.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
- Share
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 8 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, 207 (colour illus.), 300.
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Dr Paul Hetherington, The art of Donald Friend Ceylon, 'The assimilation of ideas', pg. 46-49, Colombo, 2004, 2 (colour illus.), 48.
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Lou Klepac, Australian painters of the twentieth century, 'Donald Friend', pg. 112-123, Sydney, 2000, 120 (colour illus.), 121.
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 64 (colour illus.).
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Barry Pearce, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Introduction: Convergent Spirits', pg. 10-19, Sydney, 2002, 17 (colour illus.), 143, 147.
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Barry Pearce, Donald Friend Retrospective 1915-1989, 'Introduction', pg. 9-20, Sydney, 1990, 86, 87b (colour illus.). cat.no. 66
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David Robson, Beyond Bawa: Modern mastersworks of monsoon Asia, '3. Brief encounters', pg. 38-48, London, 2007, 46 (colour illus.). Photo of the door located in the corridor of Geoffrey Bawa's Colombo residence.
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Lisa Slade and Rachael Kirsten, Enter Art, Sydney, 2000, cover (colour illus.), sheet number 5 (colour illus.). Education kit produced by the NSW Dept of Education and Training as teaching resource for primary school teachers.
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