Art Books
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# 18400
WHITELEY, Brett; WHITELEY, Wendy; KLEPAC, Lou
Brett Whiteley drawings (deluxe edition with original linocut)
Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2015. Quarto, gilt-lettered black cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 220, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 25 copies specially bound, with an original linocut by Brett Whiteley ‘The Wave’ loosely enclosed, specially printed in a numbered edition of 25 copies, signed lower right with the Brett Whiteley studio stamp, and …
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# 17848
RAY, Man (1890-1976)
Self portrait : Man Ray. (Presentation copy inscribed by the artist)
New York : An Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown & Company, 1963. First Edition. Octavo, publisher’s cloth in illustrated jacket (rubbed and a little chipped); a presentation copy inscribed and signed on the half-title by the great American artist Man Ray ‘For Beverly and Eaton Ballard, Man Ray, 1966’; 402 pp, 32 b&w …
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# 17875
PICASSO, Pablo
Je suis le cahier. The sketchbooks of Picasso.
Edited by Arnold Glimcher and Marc Glimcher. Boston and New York : The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Pace Gallery, New York. Printed in Italy. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 347, extensively illustrated.
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# 17872
Erté, Romain De Tirtoff
Erté at ninety-five. The complete new graphics
Edited by Marshall Lee with introduction by Erté. Preface by David Rogath and Leslee Halpern-Rogath. New York : E. P. Dutton, 1987. Quarto, silver-lettered cloth, glassine, slipcase (dusty), pp. 192, lavishly illustrated. Limited to 250 copies signed and numbered by the artist (an additional 100 copies numbered in Roman numerals reserved for the U.K.). A beautiful …
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# 17876
BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Peinture, dessin, écriture
Paris : Museé-Galerie de Seita, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 104, illustrated in colour with some folding plates. Scarce exhibition catalogue on the hugely admired New York street artist.
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# 17856
WEBER, Bruce (1946 - )
O Rio de Janeiro. A photographic journal
New York : Afred A. Knopf, 1986. Folio, photo-illustrated cards, a few light stains, previous owner’s inscription to endpaper, unpaginated, fully illustrated photo-book with several fold-out plates. One of the great photo-books of the late twentieth century, O Rio de Janeiro is a luxuriously voyeuristic tour through the streets of Rio. Weber’s design of the …
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# 17843
BEIER, Ulli; COX, Paul; MORA, Mirka
Mirka. (Inscribed, and with an original sketch, by Mirka Mora)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 1980. First edition. Oblong quarto, buckram boards with title in blind, in pictorial dust jacket, a presentation copy inscribed and signed on the half-title by Mirka Mora for a fellow embroidery student, with a date of 22.10.84, and with a small sketch of an angel by the artist; pp 84; a fine …
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# 17956
SMITH, W. Eugene (1918 - 1978); SMITH, Aileen M.
Shinobu-San : to gather life (signed copy)
Tokyo : Soju Sa, 1973. Quarto, silver-lettered card wrappers (signed by W. Eugene Smith on lower wrapper), pp. 32, photographically illustrated. Text in Japanese. A Japanese photobook by the renowned American photographer documenting the environmental and social impact of a chemical spill in Kyushu which resulted in mercury poisoning (Minimata) of a number of local …
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# 17951
TWOMBLY, Cy (1928 - 2011)
Cy Twombly Photographs 1951 -1999 (signed copy)
Rome : Planco, Schirmer / Mosel, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 114, introduction by Vincent Katz, illustrated. Signed by Twombly in his large, distinctive running hand, the loosely formed characters imitating his renowned series of calligraphic letter paintings.
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# 18015
MOORE, Henry (1898 - 1986)
Henry Moore. (Signed by the artist)
New York : M. Knoedler and Co in association with Marlborough Fine Art, 1962. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (laminate lifting), pp. [viii]; black and white plates (some folding). Signed by Moore on verso of title page and dated 1962. Exhibition catalogue.
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# 17879
WARHOL, Andy; GIDAL, Peter
Andy Warhol. Films and paintings.
London : Studio Vista, 1971. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated. The scarce hardcover issue.
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# 17865
MORAND, Paul; BRASSAÏ (1899 - 1984)
Paris de nuit
Paris: Edition Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933. Quarto, photographic wrappers, spiral bound (with all the perforations intact), lettered on front cover in red, small creases lower right and upper right corners, a few light marks, but overall a very good copy of a notoriously fragile and significant photobook. Pp. 12; text by Morand, 64 full page …
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# 17504
Parallel Prints 2015
Kerikeri, N.Z. : Art at Wharepuke, 2015. Buckram clamshell case containing twelve original prints by Susanna Castleden, Anoinetta Covino-Beehre, David Fraser, Mark Graver, Jodi Heffernan, Martin King, Deborah Klein, Bruno Leti, John Neeson, Melissa Smith, and Deborah Williams. Limited to 24 sets (the prints in an edition of 36). The first Parallel Prints project was …
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# 17871
JOHNSON, Robert
The paintings of Robert Johnson (deluxe edition with drawing)
Sydney : The Legend Press, Folio, gilt-decorated full grey morocco (a little marked), pp. [xviii]; 18 colour plates, occasional light foxing. Biographical note by John Brackenreg. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by the artist with an original signed drawing tipped-in.
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# 18094
FRAZER, David.
Homesick
Castlemaine : Unstable Press, 2013. Quarto, cloth bound boards with illustration to front panel, unpaginated, 12 original wood engravings, letterpress. Limited to 15 copies plus three proofs, bound by George Matoulas. An emotional short story about love and its loss. Held in the collections of the State Library of Victoria, Monash University, University of Melbourne, …
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# 17567
HENSON, Bill (b. 1955)
Bill Henson (deluxe edition with two signed photographs)
Paris : Editions Bessard, 2016. Quarto, full silk with lenticular (holographic) cover, pp. [48], all full-page images of Henson’s photographs, paper folder at rear containing a signed photograph of a nude girl measuring 11.5 x 16 cm, housed within a silver-lettered raw silk clamshell box. The deluxe edition, limited to 30 copies, with an additional C-type …