Title
Sketchbook, Sri Lanka
1959
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- Ceylon sketch book
- Place where the work was made
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Sri Lanka
- Date
- 1959
- Media categories
- Sketchbook , Drawing
- Materials used
- sketchbook; 72 leaves, 53 drawings, pen and brown ink on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 25.0 x 35.0 cm leaf; 25.0 x 35.5 x 2.0 cm closed book; 25.0 x 72.0 cm open book
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1989
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 353.1989.a-ttt
- 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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Places
Where the work was made
Sri Lanka
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Animals on paper: from the Australian collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Sep 1992–05 Oct 1992
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Oct 1994–27 Nov 1994
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, , 04 Mar 1995–01 Apr 1995
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, , 03 May 1995–03 Jun 1995
Everyday Life, prints, drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European Art, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Australia, 22 Jun 1995–30 Jul 1995
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Everyday life: prints drawings and watercolours from the collections of Australian and European art, Sydney, 1994. cat.no. 30
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Animals on paper - from the Australian collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, Sydney, 1992. cat.no. 11
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David Robson, Beyond Bawa: Modern mastersworks of monsoon Asia, '3. Brief encounters', pg. 38-48, London, 2007, 38 (colour illus.). image is of etching located on page 17: (Male figure seated in low chair with sheet music on the armrest); titled 'Portrait of Bevis Bawa'
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David Robson, Beyond Bawa: Modern mastersworks of monsoon Asia, '3. Brief encounters', pg. 38-48, London, 2007, 43 (colour illus.). image is of drawing located on page 65: (Domed building with a study of a bird in ink and pencil); titled 'Dagoba'
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