Lot 6
Portrait of David Aspden 1975
drypoint etching ed. 5/10
signed lower right: Fred Williams
editioned lower left
25.5 x 20cm
Estimate $4,000 - $5,000
Private collection, Melbourne
Another example of this print is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
RELATED WORK:
Fred Williams, Sketch Portrait of David Aspden 1975, oil on canvas, 106.7 x 91.5cm, The Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
"Fred Williams and his wife Lyn played hosts to David Aspden and his family while they were in Melbourne for an exhibition of Aspden's work. Fred Williams painted Aspden's portrait in a single morning, and made no changes later. Patrick McCaughey writes that like Williams' other portraits, it was more a gesture of friendship than a work destined for exhibition. Yet, he asserts, the ‘direct and unselfconscious ease of David Aspden makes it one of the small masterpieces of Williams' informal portraiture'."
(National Portrait Gallery, Canberra)
© Fred Williams/Copyright Agency, 2023
Prints & Multiples
AUCTION
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6:00pm - 15 November 2023
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