Derek Williams catalogue

An Original Exhibition catalogue for "The Derek Williams Collection," Exhibited at the National Museum of Wales 1989. 83 Pages mainly b&w images but there are some colour illustrations.
Featuring a painting by John Piper on the cover.
Size: 24 x 18 cm
Condition: Fair, there is some creasing and wear to the edges of the catalogue.
Shipping: Special delivery in the UK, tracked everywhere else.

The Dereck Williams collection contains work by many of the key figures in early and mid 20th century British art including Lucian Freud, LS Lowry, Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson.
Derek Williams (1929-1984) was a chartered surveyor who lived and worked in Cardiff and began collecting modern British art in the late 1950s. He was initially attracted to the work of John Piper and Ceri Richards. The collection also contains work by other British Neo-Romantics, including David Jones, Graham Sutherland and Keith Vaughan, as well as their contemporaries including Josef Herman, Ivon Hitchens and Stanley Spencer.
Most of the work dates from the 30s, 40s and 50s and is relatively modest in scale, having being collected for a domestic environment. Williams bought mainly from the Howard Roberts Gallery in Cardiff and the Marlborough Gallery in London. He gained immense satisfaction from building his collection and displaying it within his various residences and practice offices.