Art Books
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# 33144
DIXON, Christine and SMITH, Terry.
Aspects of Australian figurative painting 1942 – 1962. Dreams, fears and desires.
Sydney : Power Institute, 1984. Quarto, illustrated cards, 96pp. illustrated. Cover illustration by Charles Blackman. Includes much on Nolan and his contemporaries.
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# 33142
MACKENZIE, Andrew
Walter Withers. The forgotten manuscripts
Melbourne : Mannagum Press, 1987. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (laminate scratched), pp. 144, illustrated in black and white.
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# 33139
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)
Lionel Lindsay : the printmaker’s printmaker
Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2011. Quarto, A4 size, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Essay and illustrated catalogue of 103 rare books, bookplates, woodcuts, drawings, etchings and ephemera. Limited to 1000 copies bound in wrappers, a deluxe edition of 150 copies also published (although not all were made up). Price list loosely enclosed.
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# 33137
CHRISTIE, Robyn and MILLER, Justin.
The D.R. Sheumack Collection : eighty years of Australian painting.
Compiled by Robyn Christie and Justin Miller. Sydney : Sotheby’s Australia, 1988. Quarto, silver-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (spine slightly sunned), pp. [148], illustrated. Catalogue of one of the finest collection of traditional Australian paintings formed in the past century. Includes works by Norman Lindsay, William Dobell, Tom Roberts, Hans Heysen etc.
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# 33135
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
The all new Australian graffiti
Melbourne : Sun Books, 1985. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers, [144] pp, all illustrated, light handling wear. Scarce. The third volume in Ellis’ series on Australian graffiti with hundreds of examples of street graffiti in the 1980s.
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# 33134
ELLIS, Rennie; TURNER, Ian
Australian graffiti
Melbourne : Sun Books, 1975. First edition. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers, [96] pp, all illustrated, previous owner’s name to endpaper, foreword by Ian Turner. Scarce.
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# 33132
JACKS, Robert et al.
The Field revisited
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria 2018. Two volumes in plastic slipcase, quarto, each with diecut wrappers, the first volume being a 144 page monograph on the seminal exhibition of Australian modernism held in 1968, the second volume being a 96 page facsimile of the rare original 1968 catalogue. Fine condition. ‘The National Gallery of …
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# 33131
Christie's Australia Pty. Ltd
The Harold E. Mertz Collection of Australian Art
Melbourne : Christie’s Australia Pty. Ltd., 2000. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (handling creases), pp. 172, 153 works catalogued, extensively illustrated. The hardcover catalogue for the Mertz Collection, the most valuable single owner collection of Australian art offered to that date, many new records for Australian artists were set at this sale. Masterpieces by John Brack, …
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# 33129
McKAY, Kirsten
Sybil Craig 1901 – 89. Modernist painter
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 750 numbered copies.
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# 33128
FISHER, Tim et al.
Painting forever. Tony Tuckson
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated; a very good copy.
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# 33127
BROWN, Joseph
Paintings from the Dr. Joseph Brown Collection
Melbourne : Christie’s 2005. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (after Blackman, a little creased at edges), pp. 216, 196 lots, illustrated, prices annotated. Important Australian art from the collection of one of the leading art dealers.
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# 33109
[KNGWARREYE]. NEALE, Margo, ELLWOOD, Tony, NISHINO, Hanako, et al.
Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2008. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 272, illustrated throughout in colour, exhibition catalogue for the exhibition of Australian Indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s work ‘Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye’. Contains text by Craddock Morton, Kevin Rudd, Murray McLean, Margo Neale, Tony Ellwood, Hanako Nishino, Yasuyuki Nakai and Akira …
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# 33108
[KNGWARREYE]. NEALE, Margo.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Alhalkere. Paintings from Utopia.
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 1998. Quarto, illustrated cards in paper dustwrapper, 154pp. illustrated throughout. An important monograph, a very good copy, scarce.
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# 33107
ROBERTS, Tom; GAYLARD, Geoff
Australian impressionist & realist artists
[s.l] : Graphic Management Services, [c.1990]. Quarto, buckram boards with illustrated dust jacket, pp 228. Showing 210 works from 70 artists including Jack Absalom, Kenneth Jack, Sir Ivor Hele, and Herman Pekel.
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# 33105
HOOVEN, F. Valentine
Tom of Finland. The official life and work of a gay hero
New York : Abrams, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 296, illustrated. New copy. Tuoko Laaksonen, also known as Tom of Finland (1920-1991), was an iconic and provocative artist who rose to cult status in the international gay community and beyond for his work celebrating gay archetypes and masculinity during a time when being gay was …
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# 33104
JUDIN, Juerg and KARSTENS, Pay Matthis
Tom of Finland : Made in Germany
Milan : Skira Editore, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 176, illustrated. New copy. A spectacular book showing life and work of the Finnish icon from an unknown perspective with around 150 illustrations and well researched texts. Tom of Finland has became the most famous and influential Finnish artist of the 20th century. Born Touko Laaksonen …