Lot 128
AUBREY WILLIAMS (GUYANESE 1926-1990)
THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE, VENICE
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Description
Signed and dated '80, signed, inscribed and dated verso, oil on canvas
Dimensions
45.5cm x 61cm (18in x 24in)
Footnote
Provenance: The vendor knew the artist personally through their work, and they developed a friendship while arranging exhibitions together.
Biography
Aubrey Williams was a Guyanese artist who was born in Georgetown in 1926. After some informal art training as a child he worked initially on the sugar plantations in the North-West area of the country as an agronomist. In 1952 he moved to London at the height of the Independence Movement and held his first exhibition there in 1954. Over the next fifteen years Williams established himself as a significant member of the post-war avant-garde scene and helped found the Caribbean Artists Movement. In 1970 he worked both in Jamaica and Florida and in 1964 won the prestigious Commonwealth Prize for Painting.