Works from the Donald Friend Collection - 27 October 2013 | Sydney
kendal wood
48.0 cm height
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I Nyoman Cokot (Tjokot)
kendal wood
48.0 cm height
Donald Friend's Bali, an exhibition arranged in conjunction with the Donald Friend Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 February – 25 March 1990
Donald Friend's Bali, Art Gallery of New South Wales and The Beagle Press, Sydney, 1990, cat. 78, p. 30 (illus.)
A drawing by Friend of this sculpture is illustrated in The Cosmic Turtle.
Friend writes, 'In the nineteen-fifties when Tjokot was still fairly young, he used to descend the thirty-mile journey to Sanur on a bicycle loaded with his wares. And on arrival he would be welcomed by hundreds of children, old men and women, laughing shouting, crowding eagerly around, as though he were the pied piper of Hamlin.' 1. Friend, D., The Cosmic Turtle: Batujimbar Bali, Carroll's, Perth, in association with P.T. Bab Bali, 1976, p. 28
2. ibid., p. 29