Adam and Eve 1960-1961

  

oil on composition board 122.0 x 70.5 cm

    
      Williams' sensitive and quite beautiful treatment of the naked form in this painting reveals his capacity to capture with subtlety a moment of great intimacy. Looking out beyond the picture frame, the figures are vigorously modelled and played upon by a sombre, yet luminescent light. These experimental figurative works are much more intimate and emotional than Williams' early landscapes. Such expressiveness does not reappear in his work until the 1970s.    
             

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