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  • Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

    Australia
    Contemporary Australia Impressionism and Modernism

    Art Brokerage: Douglas Stuart Leslie Friend Australian Artist: b. 1915-1989. Donald Stuart Leslie Friend was an Australian artist and diarist. Born in Sydney, Friend grew up in the artistic circle of his bohemian mother and showed early talent both as an artist and a writer. He studied with Sydney Long (1931) and Dattilo Rubbo (1934–1935), and later in London (1936–1937) at the Westminster School of Art with Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky. Much of Friend's life and career was spent outside Australia, in places as diverse as Nigeria (late 1930s, where he served as financial advisor to the Ogoga of Ikerre), Italy (several visits in the 1950s), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka; late 1950s – early 1960s), and Bali from 1968 until his final return to Sydney in 1980. Despite winning the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 1955, Friend made "no attempt to disguise the homoeroticism which underlay much of his work". He was well known for studies of the young male nude, as well as his wit. His facility as a draughtsman may have contributed to the undervaluing of his work, which art scholar Lou Klepac said "always looked too easy – decorative, flowing and natural" In the mid-1960s, Robert Hughes described him as "one of the two finest draughtsmen of the nude in Australia," and noted his humanism and lack of sentimentality, while still maintaining that he was not a major artist. Barry Pearce, however, writing in the study which accompanied Friend's posthumous retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1990, said that Hughes' judgement seemed harsh and called for a re-evaluation of Friend as an artist whose "contribution to the richness of Australian art is due for much greater recognition". Listings wanted,

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Ideas 45x35 - Huge Works on Paper (not prints) - Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Ideas 45x35 - Huge

Works on Paper (not prints): Ink and Wash on Paper, Hand Signed

29x20x0 in | 74x50x0 cm
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Boy, 1988 Intimate Moment (Double-Sided) 1988 43x35 Works on Paper (not prints) - Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Boy, 1988 Intimate Moment (Double-Sided) 1988 43x35

Works on Paper (not prints): Ink, Wash and Gouache on Paper, Hand Signed

30x22x0 in | 76x55x0 cm
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Figures 48x35 - Huge Works on Paper (not prints) - Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Figures 48x35 - Huge

Works on Paper (not prints): Ink and Wash on Paper, Hand Signed

30x22x0 in | 77x56x0 cm
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Reclining Nude 32x37 Works on Paper (not prints) - Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Reclining Nude 32x37

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18x24 in | 45x61 cm
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Boy with Ferns 42x33 - Huge Works on Paper (not prints) - Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Boy with Ferns 42x33 - Huge

Works on Paper (not prints): Ink, Watercolour, and Gouache, Hand Signed

30x21x0 in | 75x53x0 cm
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Untitled (Three Figures) 48x37 - Huge Works on Paper (not prints) - Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Donald Stuart Leslie Friend

Untitled (Three Figures) 48x37 - Huge

Works on Paper (not prints): Ink, Gouache and Wash on Paper, Hand Signed

30x22x0 in | 77x55x0 cm
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