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)
© Estate of Fred Williams/Copyright Agency 2026
lot details
37.5 x 38.5 cm (sheet)
64.5 x 55.5 cm (frame)
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


