Eager buyers snap up Perceval’s Williamstown tugboats
The two paintings by the artist closely bound up with the Boyd artistic dynasty smashed estimates even though they were done after the 1950s.
It was 1956 when John Perceval first saw the busy maritime jumble of Williamstown on Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay, and was hooked. The Australian artist would later say that finding Williamstown was “like discovering Venice”.
The comparison is far-fetched, but it doesn’t matter. You can feel Perceval’s rapture. You can see it, as well, in the many Williamstown paintings he created between 1956 and his death in 2000 at the age of 77.
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