Trapeze 1955-1956

  

etching 20.0 x 16.3 cm

    
      The Music Hall theme featured highly in Williams' London drawings and etchings. The artist positioned himself as spectator, not participant, of London society and culture, and the resulting works are often lively and animated studies of performers and their audiences, though not without an underlying sense of melancholy, as felt both by the artist as an outsider, and the subject (the music hall entity) as a victim of circumstance.    
             

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