Title
Standing nude
circa 1946
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Standing female nude
- Place where the work was made
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Melbourne
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Victoria
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Australia
- Date
- circa 1946
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas on plywood
- Dimensions
- 98.4 x 38.0 cm board
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 194.2012
- Copyright
- © Estate of Fred Williams
- Artist information
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Fred Williams
Works in the collection
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About
Although Fred Williams is best known as a landscape artist, his study and early work was grounded in figuration. In late 1943, at the age of sixteen Williams enrolled at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, where he studied drawing. Here he spent many hours laboriously sketching plaster casts, before advancing to life drawing. He subsequently undertook painting classes with William Dargie who advocated a subtle, tonal approach, and attended private classes held by modernist painter, George Bell.
This painting, produced while Williams was a student at that National Gallery School, indicates his capacity and respect for achieving both volume and mass in his figures. 'Standing nude' exemplifies a period of transition where Williams developed from a student to young artist.
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Places
Where the work was made
Melbourne
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Early works and others selected from the Harry Rosengrave collection (1979), Hawthorn Galleries, Hawthorn, 10 May 1979–25 May 1979
Fred Williams: a retrospective:
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 07 Nov 1987–31 Jan 1988
- National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne 17 Feb 1988–03 Apr 1988
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 18 Apr 1988–22 May 1988
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth 13 Jun 1988–31 Jul 1988
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 16 Aug 1988–30 Oct 1988
- Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane 24 Nov 1988–30 Jan 1989
- Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin 29 Apr 1989 -
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 08 Aug 1989–24 Sep 1989
Australian and European paintings, Christies (Melbourne), 23 Nov 1998–24 Nov 1998
Deutscher-Menzies: Australian and International Fine Art (2007), Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, Kensington, 13 Mar 2007–13 Mar 2007
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Patrick McCaughey, Fred Williams 1927-1982, 'Student work', pg. 34-40, Kensington, 1980, 34 (colour illus.). fig.no. 23
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James Mollison (Curator), Fred Williams: a retrospective, Canberra, 1987, 3 (illus.). titled 'Standing female nude'; cat.no. 1
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Deutscher-Menzies: Australian & International fine art, Woollahra, Mar 2007, 150 (colour illus.). lot no. 211
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Christie's Australia - Australian and European Paintings, South Yarra, Nov 1998, (colour illus.). lot no. 101
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Early works and others selected from the Harry Rosengrave collection, Melbourne, May 1979. cat.no. 242; not paginated
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