The Making of Donald Friend

The Making of Donald Friend
Author: Ian Britain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780646877990

Biography of Australian Artist Donald Friend, concentrating on the first 20 years of the artist's life. The book explores the experiences and influences that shaped a significant and controversial figure in Australian Art.

The Diaries of Donald Friend

The Diaries of Donald Friend
Author: Donald Friend
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 744
Release: 2001
Genre: Artists
ISBN:

Donald Friend's legendary years in Bali in the 1960s and 1970s and his subsequent final decade in Australia are revealed in detail in this fourth and final volume of The Diaries of Donald Friend. In Bali he lives luxuriously, like a lorda even keeping his own gamelan orchestraa and becomes an international celebrity artist. He welcomes guests such as Mick Jagger and the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, entertains numerous other visitors who want to buy his paintings and drawings, and socialises freely with friends, including many other artists. He engages in significant building activity and property development while also producing superb illustrated manuscripts and books. And despite increasing ill-health, Friend continues to revel in his life's drama and creativity, remaining an eloquent, often charming and sometimes irascible companion. Including over 60 drawings from his diaries, many of them in colour, this volume confirms Friend's quicksilver creative brilliance and extraordinary insight. He is perhaps Australia's most important twentieth-century diarist.

Papers of Donald Friend

Papers of Donald Friend
Author: Donald Friend
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1940
Genre: Artists
ISBN:

One exercise book with a "somewhat incomplete" record of the paintings and drawings by Friend, sold or published between June 1940 and 1942.

The Genius of Donald Friend

The Genius of Donald Friend
Author: Donald Friend
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Brings to the public for the first time a representative selection of the extraordinary drawings from the Donald Friend diaries held in the National Library of Australia. Witty, moving and evocative, they chronicle the brilliance of one of Australia's finest draughtsmen.