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FRED WILLIAMS - Summer Snow at Perisher

FRED WILLIAMS (1927-1982)

Summer Snow at Perisher 1976-77

Estimate: $680000 - 840000

Sold For:
$700000 hammer
$840000 inc. buyer's premium

 

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

Exhibited:
Fred Williams: A Retrospective, Australian National Gallery (later National Gallery of Australia), Canberra, and touring all state galleries, 1987 - 1988, cat.170
Fred Williams: Paintings, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, cat.6 (label attached verso), 1994
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 (llus. p.305)

Estimate: $680000 - 840000

Result Hammer: $700000

Location

Auction in Sydney, 16 December 2009
Deutscher-Menzies, Australian & International Fine Art, Lots 1 - 110
Lawson-Menzies, Colonial to Contemporary including Important Aboriginal Art, Lots 111 - 252
Exhibition in Melbourne, 3-6 December 2009
Exhibition in Sydney, 10-15 December 2009

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