(The clown)
(1954-1955)
Medium
gouache and varnish on composition board
Measurements
29.5 × 25.0 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Lyn Williams AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2023
© Estate of Fred Williams
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Inscription
inscribed pen and ink u.r.: Fred Williams
Accession Number
2023.673
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
Discover more
Exhibition
Fred Williams
Learning Resource
The Australian landscape: Inspired by Fred Williams’s You Yangs series
Essay
Tribute to Fred Williams: National Gallery of Victoria, 12 May 1982
Essay
Selected affinities: Fred Williams’s drawings after Rembrandt
Essay
Major early landscape by Fred Williams
Essay
Fred Williams’s Pilbara series
Exhibition
Fred Williams
Exhibition
Treasures from the Australian Prints and Drawings Collection
Exhibition
Heroic Landscape: Williams, Streeton
Exhibition
Landfall
Exhibition
Treasures of a Decade
Essay
Framing the modern: Twentieth-century picture frames in Melbourne and beyond
Essay
Donald Laycock: Star cycle
Exhibition
Luminous
Essay
The violent vision of the 1940s
Essay
An Australian student of Frank Brangwyn: Jessie C. A. Traill in London and Belgium, 1907–1908
Essay
Ocean beach, Sorrento
Essay
Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula: Painting in a changing landscape
Essay
‘The Camera is a Dumb Recording Device’, Robert Rooney and the serial photographs in retrospect
Essay
Enfilade and Intrafilament, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square
Explore the collection
Swanston Street from the Bridge
Henry BURN
Circe
Bertram MACKENNAL
Linear construction (after Josef Albers)
Anna FINLAYSON
Hot pursuit
Peter ELLIS
Pig and reflection
Peter ELLIS
Tea Trees near Cape Schanck, Victoria
Eugene von GUÉRARD
Flour lumper, Dimboola
Sidney NOLAN
Girl with goats
Grace CROWLEY
Masters George, William and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware
Robert DOWLING
Le Vagabond
Peter ELLIS
Snake attack
Peter ELLIS
Delicious
Gareth SANSOM
Lady in grey
John LONGSTAFF
Yellow
Tony TUCKSON
Sheepish
Peter ELLIS
Spirits
Peter ELLIS
Norman's house
Gareth SANSOM
Feral kwarli
Peter ELLIS
Old Volvo with tiny bird
Jenny WATSON
Shoalhaven Gorge, New South Wales
Margaret PRESTON
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
Figures and houses and plants
Gareth SANSOM
Voyage
Gareth SANSOM
Cahill Expressway
Jeffrey SMART
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
The red hat
William FRATER
Insect
Peter ELLIS
Terum Singh 1917
Peter DREW
Collins St, 5p.m.
John BRACK
A lord of the bush
Hans HEYSEN