Fred Williams (1927-1982)
Australian Landscape I 1969
Estimate: $500000 - 700000
Sold For:
$650000 hammer
Description
Fred Williams (1927-1982)
Australian Landscape I 1969
oil on canvas
121.0 x 152.5 cm
inscribed verso: FRED WILLIAMS/ LW CAT 927
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Mrs Lyn Williams, Melbourne
Rex Irwin, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, 28 August 2002, lot 27
Private collection, Perth
Company collection, Sydney
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 5 December 2007, lot 34
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 24 June 2009, lot 38
Property of an investment partnership, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited:
Fred Williams 1969-1979 (Oeuvres), Australian Embassy, Paris, 1980, cat.26 (as Australian Landscape II 1970)
Fred Williams: Landscapes 1969-79, Fischer Fine Art, London, cat.26 (as Australian Landscape II 1970) (label attached verso)
Fred Williams: A Retrospective, Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 7 November 1987 - 31 January 1988; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 17 February - 3 April 1988; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 18 April - 22 May 1988; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 13 June - 31 July 1988; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 16 August - 30 October 1988; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 24 November 1988 - 30 January 1989; Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 29 April - 4 June 1989; Art Gallery of New South Wales, 8 August - 24 September 1989, cat.108 (illus.)
20th Century Australian and New Zealand Paintings, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, 1995, cat.25 (illus.)
Reference:
McCaughey, P., Fred Williams 1927-1982, Bay Books, Sydney, 1987, pp.216-220
Mollison, J., A Singular Vision: The Art of Fred Williams, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1989, pp.132-135
Related Works:
Australian Landscape II (Gum Trees in Landscape) 1969-70, oil on canvas, 198.0 x 198.0 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Estimate: $500000 - 700000
Result Hammer: $650000