8. Mervyn Williams b. 1940
Fanfare
Acrylic on canvas
80.4 x 80.4 cm
Signed, inscribed & dated 2002 verso
est. $8,000 - 12,000
Fetched $6,000
Relative Size: Fanfare
Relative size

Provenance: Private Collection, Auckland

Exhibited: Southern Oscillation, Milford Galleries,Dunedin 2003

My work is concerned with perception, the nature and interpretation of reality. I use subtle modulations of light and shade to create surfaces reminiscent of photography, spatially ambiguous, reflecting some other reality. I seek to re-examine the relationship between what we see and what we know, between empirical fact and deduction, reality and illusion.

Mervyn Williams, Contemporary Painting in New Zealand Michael Dunn, Craftsman House publishing 1996

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