Art Books
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# 35512
NAMATJIRA, Albert et al.
Catalogue of Centralian Art
Alice Springs : Battarbee Galleries, c. 1970. Octavo, folded card, 4pp, listing of 36 works by Rex Battarbee, Albert Namatjira, Enos, Gabriel, Oscar, Ewald, Keith and Maurice Namatjira, and other Aranda artists including Otto Pareroultja, Edwin Pareroultja, Reuben Pareroultja, Richard Moketarinja, Henoch Raberaba, Herbert Raberaba and Benjamin Landara, with short biographies; the catalogue also advertises …
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# 35507
LINDSAY, Lionel
Etchings of old Sydney by Lionel Lindsay. No. 5. The Commissariat Stores
Reproduced in photogravure from the original. Sydney : W. C. Penfold & Co., c. 1920. Small folio, folding card, reproduction of etching with caption, foxed. From a series of 5 cards reproducing Lindsay etchings, originally issued each in an envelope within a card box.
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# 35506
[The Fanfrolico Press]
Fanfrolicana : June 1928
: being a statement of the aims of the Fanfrolico Press both typographical and aesthetic with a complete bibliography and specimen passages and illustrations from the books. London : The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Octavo, original wrappers, with illustration by Norman Lindsay (faint crease to fore edge), the standard edition, 36 pp, illustrated, including title page …
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# 35504
MELVILLE, Robert
Ned Kelly. 27 Paintings by Sidney Nolan
Introduction by Alan Moorehead. London : Thames and Hudson, 1964. Large square octavo, boards in dust jacket, 60 pp, corners rubbed, previous owner’s stamp to endpapers, illustrated in colour; a good copy.
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# 35503
ST JOHN MOORE, Felicity
Charles Blackman. Schoolgirls and Angels (signed copy)
A retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Charles Blackman. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine lightly sunned, 142 pp. illustrated throughout. A very good copy with light general handling wear. Signed on the preliminary blank by the author and curator Felicity St. John Moore.
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# 35492
DIGGINS, Lauraine
The Antipodeans : another chapter
Melbourne : Malakoff Fine Art Press, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. A retrospective of the significant exhibition of 1959 with additional important works by Arthur Boyd, John Brack, David Boyd, Clifton Pugh, Robert Dickerson, Charles Blackman, and John Perceval.
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# 35489
KLEPAC, Lou
Russell Drysdale : paintings 1940-1972
Sydney : S.H. Ervin Gallery, 1985. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, 12pp. Lists 52 works, with selected pieces illustrated in colour or monochrome. Introduction by Australian art publisher Lou Klepac.
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# 35488
KLEPAC, Lou
Russell Drysdale and Donald Friend drawings
Sydney : Garry Anderson Gallery, 1983. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, [12pp]. Catalogues 28 works by Drysdale and Friend, with selected works illustrated in black and white. Introduction by Lou Klepac.
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# 35487
McPHEE, John (ed.)
Joseph Lycett : convict artist
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dust jacket, pp. 285, previous owner’s name to endpaper, illustrated in colour throughout, academic text on the artist by John McPhee, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Shane Frost and Martin Terry. A richly illustrated monograph on the convict artist Joseph Lycett …
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# 35485
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia : Third Series, Number Forty-four. Watercolours and drawings by Hans Heysen.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1932. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (a couple of short tears, minor rust stains from staples), unpaginated, all pages clean, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, occasional light foxing, else a very good copy. An edition focussing on the works of …
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# 35483
YANG, William (1943 - )
William Yang : my generation
Brisbane : Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 40, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Fine copy. ‘Born a third–generation Chinese Australian, Yang grew up in Dimbulah on the Atherton Tableland and describes his upbringing as one in which his Chinese ethnicity ‘was suppressed and unacknowledged’. ‘ – Cairns Art Gallery …
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# 35482
McKAY, Peter et al
Patricia Piccinini: Curious affection (deluxe edition)
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 2018. Quarto, illustrated boards, in a slipcase with ribbon drawer, pp. 202, illustrated. One of a small number of specially bound copies in slipcase. Sunning to spine. Patricia Piccinini’s imaginative and startlingly life-like artworks surprise and enchant with their fantastic rendering of the near future — a world in which …
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# 35479
KING, Inge; GRISHIN, Sasha
The art of Inge King : sculptor
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 392, extensively illustrated. A vast and informative monograph on the significant and influential sculptor. New copy.
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# 35478
WHITELEY, Brett (1939-1992)
Brett Whiteley : the graphics 1961-1992
Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1995. Small folio, illustrated cards, 120 pp, fully illustrated in colour and b/w. A catalogue raisonne of Whiteley’s graphic output. 1000 copies were printed, of which approximately 400 were accidentally destroyed while in storage. Scarce. A fine copy.
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# 35474
KLINGENDER, Tim
Sotheby’s. Aboriginal Art, including selected Oceanic art. Melbourne, Monday 20 October 2008
Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 2009. Auction catalogue. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated card covers (Gallery Copy sticker on upper cover), pp 328, with 324 lots, all illustrated in colour, and index of artists; contains many important works by contemporary artists, but also a number of very early tribal artefacts (Australian and Pacific) and works from …
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# 35473
KLINGENDER, Tim
Sotheby’s Fine Contemporary and Aboriginal Art. Melbourne Tuesday 28 November 1995
Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 1995. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated card covers, pp 56; auction catalogue with 134 lots, most illustrated in colour, prices annotated in pen, price stapled on to title page, addenda catalogue stapled inside lower wrapper, a good copy.