Fred Williams

(1927 - 1982)

Hillside number 2, 1965 – 66

etching on paper

29.5 x 29.0 cm (image)
37.5 x 38.5 cm (sheet)
64.5 x 55.5 cm (frame)

signed and numbered below image: 5/20 Fred Williams

Estimate:
$3,000 - $6,000

Sold:
$4,295 (inc. BP)

Lot 47

Fred Williams

Hillside number 2

, 1965 – 66

lot details

Fred Williams (1927 - 1982)
Hillside number 2, 1965 – 66
etching on paper
29.5 x 29.0 cm (image)
37.5 x 38.5 cm (sheet)
64.5 x 55.5 cm (frame)
signed and numbered below image: 5/20 Fred Williams
Provenance

Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1998

Exhibited

Fred Williams: Painter/Etcher, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 7 July – 10 September 1981 (another example)
Fred Williams: A retrospective,
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 7 November 1987 – 31 January 1988, cat. 389, and touring nationally (another example)
Fred Williams Landscapes,
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 6 – 31 October 1998, cat. 29 (another example)

Literature

Mollison, J., Fred Williams Etchings, Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, 1968, cat. 240, pl. 70, pp. 82 (illus., another example), 131 (illus., another example), 132
Mollison, J., Fred Williams: Painter/Etcher, Australian National University and Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1981, cat. 68b, p. 21 (illus., another example)
Mollison, J., Fred Williams: A retrospective, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 389, p. 57 (illus., another example)
Mollison, J., Fred Williams: a souvenir book of the artist’s work in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, p. 24 (illus., another example)
Mollison, J., A Singular Vision: The Art of Fred Williams, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1989, pp. 94 (illus., another example), 97

Related Works

Hillside II, 1968, oil on canvas, 122.5 x 122.5 cm, private collection, illus. in Mollison, J., A Singular Vision: The Art of Fred Williams, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1989, p. 96
Other examples from this edition are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne