Yellow Landscape 1968-1969

 

oil on canvas 139.5 x 193.0 cm
(Collection: Geelong Art Gallery)

   
      This work (and the Lysterfield series which informs it) could be considered one of Williams' most authoritative, in that it consolidates a number of previously explored themes. The painting is vigorous, but spare; decorative, yet somehow austere. The expansive, aerially viewed landscape is alive with pulses of red, blue and ochre, applied in idiosyncratic touches to the canvas.    
             

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