Orinoco I

Details

AUBREY WILLIAMS (1926-1990)
Orinoco I
signed, inscribed and dated 'ORINICO I/Aubrey Williams/'64' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 1⁄4 x 40 in. (92.1 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1964.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner's mother in the 1970s, and by descent.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Works by Aubrey Williams are included in the current exhibitions, Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now, at Tate Britain, and Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965 at Barbican Art Gallery.

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