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Lot Essay
Kyffin visited Patagonia on an artistically formative Winston Churchill Fellowship from 1968 to 1969.
Of his Patagonia works Kyffin commented in the foreword to the 1970 Leicester Galleries exhibition in which both the present lot and lot 55 were included, 'I went to Welsh Patagonia purely to record the land, the people and the natural history, much as an eighteenth-century watercolourist would have done. I never intended to produce works of art but if this did happen by chance, it was all to the good, I had to use new mediums, since I could not carry oils with me over the vast distance of Chubult ... These oils have been made from a series of drawings that I did in Patagonia just over a year ago. The majority have been presented to the National Library of Wales in order to preserve a visual record of the Welsh community' (K. Williams, exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of Works by Kyffin Williams, Leicester Galleries, London, 1970).
Of his Patagonia works Kyffin commented in the foreword to the 1970 Leicester Galleries exhibition in which both the present lot and lot 55 were included, 'I went to Welsh Patagonia purely to record the land, the people and the natural history, much as an eighteenth-century watercolourist would have done. I never intended to produce works of art but if this did happen by chance, it was all to the good, I had to use new mediums, since I could not carry oils with me over the vast distance of Chubult ... These oils have been made from a series of drawings that I did in Patagonia just over a year ago. The majority have been presented to the National Library of Wales in order to preserve a visual record of the Welsh community' (K. Williams, exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of Works by Kyffin Williams, Leicester Galleries, London, 1970).