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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  14 Aug 2012 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  51
• Lot Description:
  Fred Williams
  (1927-1982)
  Acrobats (1955)
  oil on composition board
  106.2 x 80.7 cm
  signed 'Fred Williams' lower left
• Provenance:
  Private Collection, Melbourne; Private Collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Exhibition by Fred Williams of Paintings in Gouache and Oil, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 2-12 July 1957, no. 5, 80 gns Fred Williams: A Retrospective, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 7 November 1987 - 31 January 1988, and tour, no. 15, illustrated Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 12 August - 6 November 2011, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 7 April - 5 August 2012, illustrated
• References:
  Patrick McCaughey, Fred Williams 1927-1982, Bay Books, Sydney, 1984, p. 77 (illustrated) Deborah Hart, Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2011, pp. 30 (illustrated), 31, 46, 87, 226
• Estimate:
  A$180,000 - 220,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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