Fred Williams (1927–82)
(left image) “Standing
Figure”, 1958
(right image) Williams’
1960–1 painting based on the etching
Etching with
foul biting, engraving and drypoint on a zinc plate printed on Kent paper.
Size: (plate) 19.1
x 13.6 cm; (sheet) 25.2 x 19 cm
Proof impression,
lettered “P.” from state ii (of ii). (Note: Mollison does not describe this
proof impression lettered “P.” in his catalogue raisonné.)
Mollison 121
(ii?) (reproduced in plate 38)
Condition: richly
inked, strong impression in good condition but with remnants of mounting tape
(verso), signed by the artist in pencil (lower right) and with the proof letter
“P.” (lower left).
I am selling
this exceptionally rare proof impression for AU$4000 AUD (currently
US$2914.10/EUR2582.28/GBP2006.74 at the time of posting this print) including
postage and handling to anywhere in the world. If you are interested in
purchasing this original etching by one of Australia’s most famous artists,
please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal
invoice to make the payment easy.
This is one of
those prints that is almost a piece of low relief sculpture. Williams must have
been very careful when he wiped the plate in preparation for printing it, as he has
left only the finest trace of plate-tone (i.e. surface ink) on the “raised”
areas portraying the figure while simultaneously retaining a velvety black in the
deeply worked intaglio areas portraying the figure’s background. Beyond the
skill of wiping the plate and printing this impression, this print has another
attribute that makes it remarkable: the way that Williams has scored the
dark background so that it is seems visually alive with movement.
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