Lot Essay
For Kyffin, Patagonia was 'the land of the rider', of the gaucho, who 'rode arrogantly with one shoulder forward like Colleoni in Venice' (K. Williams, A Wider Sky, Dyfed, p. 166).
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Rider in the Desert
Details
Sir Kyffin Williams, R.A. (1918-2006)
Rider in the Desert
signed with initials 'KW' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.7 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1968-1969.
Rider in the Desert
signed with initials 'KW' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.7 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1968-1969.
Provenance
Purchased at the 1970 exhibition by M.C.R. Advertising Ltd.
Gifted by M.C.R. Advertising Ltd. to the present owner's father.
Gifted by M.C.R. Advertising Ltd. to the present owner's father.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of works by Kyffin Williams, March 1970, no. 31.
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