Works from the Donald Friend Collection - 27 October 2013 | Sydney
Lot 158
Donald Friend
(1915 - 1989)
VILLAGE DANCERS, LAGOS, NIGERIA, 1939
ink and wash on paper
18.0 x 23.0 cm
Estimate:
$1,000 - 2,000
Lot sold: $3,360 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Donald Friend
(1915 - 1989)
VILLAGE DANCERS, LAGOS, NIGERIA, 1939
ink and wash on paper
18.0 x 23.0 cm
signed, dated and inscribed upper left: Da (illeg.) Village. Lagos '39, / Donald. Nigeria.
Literature
Britain, I. (ed.), The Donald Friend Diaries, Chronicles and Confessions of an Australian Artist, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2010, p. 78 (illus., as 'Yoruba: pulsing rythms')