Fred Williams
Fred Williams (1927-1982) is an
Australian
painter, known particularly for his
landscapes. He studied at the Gallery School in
Melbourne from 1943 to 1947 and at the
Chelsea College of Art and Design in
London from 1951 to 1956.
He had more than 70 solo exhibitions during his career throughout Australia's art galleries, as well as the exhibition
Fred Williams - Landscapes of a Continent at the
MoMA in
New York in 1977.
Williams won the
Wynne Prize for landscape painting twice; in 1966 with
Upwey Landscape and in 1976 with
Mt. Kosciusko.
His painting
Upwey Landscape (1965) sold for $1,987,700 in one of the final auctions of
Christie's in Australia in April 2006, which was the second highest price for an Australian work. [
1] [
2] The previous highest price for one of Williams' paintings was $587,500 for
You Yangs Landscape in 1963.
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Gallery at Arts Monash*
National Gallery of Victoria
