Bush Road with Cootamundras 1977

Fred Williams (1927-1982)

Bush Road with Cootamundras 1977

oil on canvas
97.0 x 107.0 cm

signed lower right: Fred Williams bears artist's name, inscribed and dated on stretcher verso: BUSH ROAD WITH COOTAMUNDRAS 1977/ FRED WILLIAMS

Provenance:

Estate of the artist

The Qantas Collection, Sydney c1986

Gould Galleries, Melbourne (label attached verso)

Private collection, Melbourne 2002

Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 27 August 2007, lot 6

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:

GOULDmodern, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, 20 July - 31 August 2002, cat. 13, (illus.)

Reference:

James, B., ‘The Qantas Collection’, Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, December 1997- January 1998, p.54 (illus.)

Related Works:

<I>Wattles at Dunmoochin</I>, 1977, oil on canvas, 106.0 x 101.0 cm, Sotheby’s Australia, Sydney, 7 May 2007, lot 96, sold $366,00 (including buyer’s premium)

<i>Bush Pond</I>, 1976, oil on canvas, 107.0 x 101.5 cm, Sotheby’s Australia, Sydney, 26 August 2014, lot 12, sold $402,600 (including buyer’s premium)

<i>You Yangs Landscape</i>, 1978, oil on canvas, 107.0 x 101.0 cm, Sotheby’s, Sydney, 26 August 2014, lot 8, sold $540,600 (including buyer’s premium)

<I>Trees on a Hillside</I>, 1977, oil on canvas, 106.5 x 101.5 cm., Sotheby’s, <I>The David Clarke AO Collection of Australian Art; Important Australian Art</i>, Sydney, 28 April 2015, lot 72, sold $530,700 (including buyer’s premium)

Estimate: $370000 - 420000