Summer Snow at Perisher 1976-77

FRED WILLIAMS (1927-1982)

Summer Snow at Perisher 1976-77

oil on canvas
135.0 x 152.0 cm
signed lower left: Fred Williams
inscribed on backing verso: CAT 170/ LW 907/ "SUMMER SNOW AT PERISHER", 1976

Provenance:
The estate of the artist
Mrs Lyn Williams Collection, Melbourne
Mrs Dawn Irwin, later Dawn O'Donnell Collection, Sydney
The Dawn O'Donnell Bequest: NIDA Foundation, Sydney
Menzies, Sydney, 16 December 2009, lot 33
Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
Fred Williams: A Retrospective, Australian National Gallery (later National Gallery of Australia), Canberra, and touring all state galleries, 1987-88, cat.170
Fred Williams: Paintings, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 1994, cat.6 (label attached verso)
The Dawn O'Donnell Bequest: important private collection being offered on behalf of the NIDA foundation, Richard Martin Art, Sydney, 15 August - 2 September 2009

Reference:
Mollison, J., A Singular Vision: The Art of Fred Williams, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1989, p.197 (illus.)
Art and Australia, Fine Arts Press, Sydney, Autumn 1994, vol.31, no.3 (illus. p.305)

Related Works:
Mt Kosciusko, 1975-1976, oil on canvas, 152.5 x 183.0 cm, private collection, illus. in McCaughey, P., Fred Williams, Murdoch Books, Sydney, 2008, pl.180, p.288
Mount Kosciusko, 1975, gouache, synthetic polymer paint on paper, 56.0 x 77.5 cm, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, illus. in Mollison, J., A Singular Vision: The Art of Fred Williams, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1989, p.191
Mountain Creek, Mount Kosciusko, 1976, oil on canvas, 182.5 x 111.5 cm, private collection, illus. in Mollison, J., A Singular Vision: The Art of Fred Williams, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1989, p.196

Estimate: $600000 - 700000