Art Books
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# 47141
NEVILLE, Richard (curator)
Lewin : wild art
Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, pp. 12, catalogue of 159 works, no illustrations.
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# 47139
CROMBIE, Isobel et a.
Brave New World. Australia 1930s
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, corners a little bumped, pp. 198, extensively illustrated. Includes works by Albert Tucker, Percy Leason, Daniel Vassilieff, Noel Counihan, Max Dupain, Dorothy Thornhill, Fred Ward, Sybil Craig, William Ricketts, Margaret Preston, Arthur Murch, Elioth Gruner, Freda Robertshaw, Albert Namatjira, Lionel Lindsay et al.
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# 47138
OLSEN, Penny
Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art
Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly foxed verso), pp. 228, a good copy. This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available at the start of the 21st century. There are …
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# 47137
SMITH, Jason
Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print
Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Fine copy. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. Quickly sold out. ‘This exceptionally beautiful Geelong Gallery-curated exhibition will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell (born 1960), and on the …
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# 47136
ADAMS, Tate; ZIMMER, Jenny
The Crossley Gallery 1966-1980 (deluxe edition)
Editor Jenny Zimmer; with an introduction by Patrick McCaughey. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Quarto gilt-lettered cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 220, illustrated throughout. One of a very small number of copies specially bound in a deluxe binding with slipcase. As new copy, mint condition. ‘This book presents the genesis of Tate Adam’s remarkable influence on …
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# 47135
WATTS, Peter et al.
An exquisite eye : the Australian flora & fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 167, illustrated. A very good copy. “This publication coincides with an exhibition of the same title held at the Focus Gallery, Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House, between 13 December 1997 and 19 April 1998.”
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# 47089
GOULD, John (1804 - 1881); GOULD, Elizabeth (1804 - 1841); RICHTER, Henry Constantine (1821 - 1902)
The Birds of Australia (complete set)
London : printed by Richard and John Taylor for the author, 1848. Seven volumes, imperial folio, finely bound by Sotheran and Co. in full green crushed morocco over boards, elaborate gilt panels and rules, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (bindings with some light edge rubbing and scuffs); all edges …
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# 47083
McCAUGHEY, Patrick
The diaries of Fred Williams 1963 – 1970
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2024. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. ix, 649, illustrated. A very good copy. ‘A generous and insightful glimpse into the private life and creative process of a giant of Australian landscape painting Fred Williams kept a daily diary from 1963 until his death in 1982. Disciplined and meticulous, he recorded life …
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# 47129
ZUBANS, Ruth
E. Phillips Fox : his life and art
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 1995. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 243, illustrated, pale foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. A fine monograph on Emanuel Phillips Fox, husband of Ethel Carrick Fox.
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# 47128
TEAGUE, Violet; REDE, Geraldine
Night fall in the ti-tree
Woodcuts by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague. Melbourne and London : Sign of the Rabbit and Elgin Mathews, 1906. Small folio, ribbon-tied woodcut-printed wrappers (lightly rubbed, ribbons replaced, the original silk ribbon as always deteriorated, and preserved separately), illustrated endpapers, fourteen leaves folded in the Japanese manner illustrated with original woodcuts by Teague and Rede, …
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# 47124
CRAMER, Patrick
Joan Miro. The illustrated books : catalogue raisonné.
Preface by Rosa Maria Malet. Geneva : Patrick Cramer, 1989. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 676, extensively illustrated with over a thousand images. A fine copy. The invaluable catalogue raisonné of all of Miro’s illustrated books. An indispensable reference.
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# 47120
PRINTZ, Neil; KING-NERO, Sally et al.
The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 4 : Paintings and Sculptures late 1974 – 1976.
London : Phaidon, 2014. Oblong quarto, boards in slipcase, pp. 608, 740 illustrations. New copy. Note : released at the RRP of $695, we are able to offer a mint copy at the original publisher’s price. ‘The 607 paintings and one sculpture documented in Volume 4 of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne were produced during …
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# 47112
CRAFWORD, Marian (1955 - )
Picturing the island
Melbourne : the artist, 2016. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with wraparound title band, pp. [52], illustrated. A contemporary photobook created by Melbourne artist Marian Crawford, drawing on her memories growing up on Babana (contemporary Kiribati) and using historical photographs of what was at the time known as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. ‘Picturing the Island takes …
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# 47095
RADFORD, Ron and HYLTON, Jane
Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000. Quarto, laminated wrappers (light handling wear), pp. 144, illustrated throughout with colour plates of works by the artists Jean Appleton, Gwen Barringer, Clarice Beckett, Dorrit Black, Elise Blumann, Stella Bowen, Lina Bryans, Ethel Carrick (Fox), Dora Chapman, Sybil Craig, Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar, Bessie Davidson, Agnes Goodsir, …
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# 47088
CRUMLIN, Rosemary
Aboriginal art and spirituality (signed and inscribed copy)
Melbourne : Collins Dove, 1991. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 151, illustrated. With a long and warm signed inscription from Rosemary Crumlin on the title page. Contributors include Judith Ryan, Roy Churcher, Christopher Hodges, Gabrielle Pizzi, Margaret Woodward and Fiona Foley. “Painting has become a powerful vehicle for the transmission of a culture: the myths, …
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# 47087
FOX, Stephen and MAUGHAN, Janet
Ian W. Abdulla : Elvis has entered the building
Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2003. Quarto, 280 x 240 mm mm, boards in dustjacket, pp. 104, illustrated. New copy. For a painter who wishes to be remembered as a ‘quiet lad’, Ian Abdulla has been creating quite a stir over the last 15 years. He is recognised as one of Australia’s most distinctive and appealing …