Art Books
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# 50873
[REES]. KOLENBERG, Hendrik
Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs (signed by the author)
A catalogue raisonne by Hendrik Kolenberg with an introduction by Lou Klepac. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1986. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp. 112, scholarly text on Lloyd Rees’ life and work written by Hendrik Kolenberg, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Signed by the author on the half title. An excellent copy, with a …
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# 50871
REES, Lloyd
The Cathedrals of France
Sydney : Artarmon Gallery, 1975. Octavo, exhibition catalogue single sheet, six panels, illustrated in colour, essay by Rees, catalogue of 25 works.
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# 50870
CLINCH, Robert
Robert Clinch. Fanfare for the common man (signed and inscribed copy)
Ballarat : Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 108, illustrated. Essay by David Thomas, interview by Julie Collett. Signed and inscribed by the artist, dated 2016.
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# 50869
COTTE, Sabine
Mirka Mora : a life making art
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2019. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 268, illustrated. New copy. Mirka Mora features a rich insight into the intellectual life and art practice of one of Australia’s most versatile, creative and prolific modern artists. A Melbourne cultural icon, Mirka, along with her ex-husband Georges, was instrumental in helping to …
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# 50858
KRAUSMANN, Rudi; WHITELEY, Brett
From another shore. Prose by Rudi Krausmann. Drawings by Brett Whiteley (signed presentation copy)
Sydney : Wild & Woolley, 1975. Octavo, illustrated wrappers with cover illustration by Brett Whiteley, pp. 78, illustrated throughout with drawings by Brett Whiteley. Signed presentation copy to Australian art academic and author Jenny Zimmer from the author.
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# 50853
HUTCHINGS, P. Ae. and LEWIS, Julie
Kathleen O’Connor : artist in exile
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987. Octavo, stiff wrappers, illustrated dustjacket, pp. 326, illustrated, a very good copy of this monograph on the West Australian modernist painter.
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# 50850
[BOYD, Arthur]. PEARCE, Barry.
Arthur Boyd Retrospective
Sydney: The Beagle Press for The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 200pp. extensively illustrated. A fine copy.
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# 50849
PHIPPS, Jennifer
Creators & inventors : Australian women’s art in the National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1993. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Includes works by Ellis Rowan, Louisa Anne Meredith, Bessie Gibson, Violet Teague, Thea Proctor, Clarice Beckett, Grace Cossington-Smith, Jessie Traill, Frances Derham, Janet Cumbrae Stewart, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Klytie Pate, Joy Hester, Grace Crowley, Daphne Mayo, Jean Bellette, Hermia …
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# 50848
REID, Barrett
Of dark and light. The art of John Perceval
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1992. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, light wave to text block, illustrated.
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# 50847
ST JOHN MOORE, Felicity
Classical modernism: the George Bell circle
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1992. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 139, illustrated in colour, includes the artists Sam Ateyo, Yvonne Atkinson, Cecil Beaton, George Bell, Barbara Brash, Dorothy Braund, Lina Bryans, Frances Burke, Nutter Buzacott, Wolfgang Cardamatis, Maie Casey, Rod Clarke, Yvonne Cohen, Bill Coleman, Jack Courier, Sybil Craig, Russell Drysdale, Moya Dyring, Mary …
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# 50846
PARAMANTHAN, Nathan (editor)
The Melbourne modernists
Melbourne : Victorian Artists’ Society, 1990. Oblong folio, boards in dustjacket (lightly rubbed), pp. 40, illustrated. A study on Society members painters William Frater, A. M. Plante, Arnold Shore and Isabel Tweddle.
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# 50845
[WHITELEY]. PEARCE, Barry, ROBERTSON, Bryan and WHITELEY, Wendy.
Brett Whiteley : art & life
Sydney : The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 240, contains 180 colour and 40 monochrome plates, foreword by Edmund Capon, text by Bryan Robertson, Barry Pearce and an interview between Barry Pearce and Wendy Whiteley. Light wave to text block, a very good reference copy.
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# 50843
BEIER, Ulli; COX, Paul; MORA, Mirka
Mirka (signed presentation copy)
Text by Ulli Beier, photographs by Paul Cox. Melbourne : Macmillan, 1980. First edition. Oblong quarto, buckram boards with title in blind, in pictorial dust jacket, pp 84; slight wave to text block, else a fine copy. Signed and inscribed by the author Ulli Beier to art historian and publisher Jenny Zimmer on the endpaper …
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# 50842
ZDANOWICZ, Irena
Beauty in truth : the Botanical Art of Margaret Stones
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated.
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# 50839
OLSEN, John, McGREGOR, Ken; ZIMMER, Jenny
John Olsen. Journeys into the ‘You beaut country’. (Revised edition)
Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 2016 (first published by Macmillan, 2007). Quarto, illustrated boards lettered in gold, pp. 344, illustrated. An extensive journey of Olsen’s artistic relationship with the Australian landscape. A fine copy, as new, of an elusive title. ‘This volume, companion to Teeming With Life (2005), which contained this artist’s complete printmaking oeuvre …
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# 50835
SMITH, Geoffrey
Arthur Streeton 1867 – 1943 (hardcover edition, signed by Geoffrey Smith & Oliver Streeton)
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1995. Quarto, gilt-lettered boards, illustrated dustjacket (edges a little rubbed), pp. 200 with extensive curatorial research and colour reproductions, offset markings to title page and adjacent leaf, signed on the half title by author and curator Geoffrey Smith and the artists grandson Oliver Streeton. A very good example of …