Early Australian primitive: boy with a poodle by Michael Collins [picture] / [Donald Leslie Friend]
- Bib ID:
- 2408161
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Friend, Donald, 1915-1989
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Screen 49 #PIC/4038 copy
- Description:
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- [ca. 1940]
- 1 painting : photomontage with oil on panel ; visible image 11.6 x 16.9 cm., in frame 12.8 x 31 cm.
- Summary:
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A photomontage created as a hoax to illustrate an article by Friend on Australian colonial primitive art published in 'Christian Science monitor', 1940. The work depicts a boy with a clipped show poodle in the foreground of an early Sydney landscape. For verification of publication date see file 204/09/00040-03.
- Notes:
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- Title from information supplied by vendor: Hordern House Rare Books, Sydney, March 2001, see file 204/09/00040-03.
- Inscriptions: in Friend's hand on frame backing 'Sydney 1810' upper left; 'bought from [indecipherable] Brisbane' upper right.
- Condition: good
- PIC Screen 49 #PIC/4038 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136549250
- Friend descibes the photomontage production process in 'Painter's journal' Ure Smith : Sydney, 1946.
- Subject:
- Literary forgeries and mystifications -- Pictorial works
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- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: "Donald Friend: A charmed life", National Library of Australia visitor centre, 9 November 2006 to 4 February 2007
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