Artists in conflict
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# 46251
MURCH, Ria
Arthur Murch: An artist’s life 1902 – 1989
Sydney : Ruskin Rowe Press, 1997. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, 158pp. Monograph featuring full page colour images with foreward by Peter Pinson and introduction by Barry Pearce. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the title page.
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# 46196
[WUNDERLICH LIMITED]
Embossed metal decorations suitable for peace celebrations.
[Redfern, N.S.W. : Wunderlich Limited], 15 May 1919. Broadsheet with photogravure illustrations, 310 x 250 mm, printed recto only; central horizontal fold, small perforation lower section, light edge wear. ‘Leaflet advertising Wunderlich coats of arms and shields with design numbers, dimensions, and materials used. Halftone photographs show the following designs: Royal Arms nos. 580, 719, …
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# 46195
MINNS, B. E. (Benjamin Edward) (1863-1937) (artist)
Grand Military Tattoo. Tendered to the Admiral Commanding and Personnel of the visiting United States Battle Fleet, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Ground, Sydney, New South Wales. Thursday July 30th at 8pm, 1925.
[Drop title]. Sydney : The Motor Press Ltd., 1925. Octavo (225 mm), colour pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper design signed in the image lower right ‘B. E. Minns’ and incorporating symbols of the United States of America and Australia, including the flags of both nations, the kangaroo and emu, and the New South Wales waratah; …
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# 46162
KLEPNER, Frank
Yosl Bergner : art as a meeting of cultures
With a preface by Bernard Smith. Melbourne, Vic. : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated. A fine copy, as new. ‘The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel in 1950. Melbourne scholar, Frank Klepner, provides a richly-detailed history of Bergner’s Australian …
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# 46133
[PURVES SMITH]. EAGLE, Mary.
Peter Purves Smith. A painter in peace and war.
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, 192pp., plates. Light handling marks, a very good copy. Peter Purves Smith in the early 1940s was considered one of Australia’s three most promising young artists (the others were his friend Russell Drysdale and the Sydney painter William Dobell). But Purves Smith died in 1949, too …
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# 46017
JONES, Luke
Australian Toys
Melbourne : Melbourne : Books, 2019. Quarto, laminated pictorial boards, pp. 358, illustrated. ‘Australian Toys is an illustrated history of Australian manufactured toys from 1900-1965, drawing on the author’s authoritative collection. The book documents the production of each toy with beautiful colour photographs accompanied by relevant text about the toy and manufacturer.’
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# 45992
SMITH, Bernard (1916 - 2011)
A pavane for another time
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2002. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 464, illustrated. Long out of print, this is a scarce as-new copy. Bernard Smith’s autobiographical account of life in the 1940s, including Smith’s detailed interactions with Australian painters. Includes portraits of James Gleeson, Leonard French, Inge King, Noel Counihan, Tony Tuckson etc. John McDonald …
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# 45831
[VASSILIEFF]. ST JOHN MOORE, Felicity.
Vassilieff and his art.
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2012. (First published 1982). Quarto, gatefold wrappers, 232 pp., illustrated. Mint copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap.
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# 45712
[TUCKER, Albert]. MOLLISON, James and MINCHIN, Jan.
Albert Tucker : a retrospective (signed copy)
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1990. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (slightly creased), 120 pp. illustrated in colour. A fine monograph on the Angry Penguin. Signed by Albert Tucker on the half title.
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# 45011
"MALLEY, Ern" (STEWART, Harold and McAULEY, James)
Angry Penguins. 1944 Autumn Number to Commemorate the Australian Poet Ern Malley
Edited by Max Harris and John Reed. Melbourne: Reed & Harris, 1944. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Sidney Nolan (upper wrapper silverfished with a little loss, stained, lower wrapper water stained), pp. 108, water stain to the margins, a good copy of a rare publication. Issue 6. The famous Ern Malley issue, of which 900 copies …
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# 44749
HOFF, Rayner et al.
Sculpture of Rayner Hoff
With text by the Rt. Hon. the Earl Beauchamp, K.G., K.C.M.G., Howard Ashton, E.C. Temple Smith and W. Bede Dalley. Sydney : Sunnybrook Press, 1934. Quarto, illustrated cloth, dustjacket (very slight edge wear, a fine copy), pp. 113; [8]. Limited to 100 copies, signed by all contributors, the artist and publisher, with an original signed …
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# 44748
COUNIHAN, Noel, and LINDSAY, Jack.
War or Peace. Twelve linocuts by Noel Counihan. Poems by Jack Lindsay
Preface by Robert Smith. Melbourne: Gryphon Books, n.d. [1978]. Large oblong quarto, quarter maroon morocco with gilt-lettered boards in matching slipcase, numerous colour plates reproducing Counihan linocuts, additional suite of the plates in black and white contained in a stiff paper maroon folder. Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Counihan Lindsay. Fine copy. When …
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# 44712
DYSON, Will (1880-1938)
Australia at war : a winter record
/ made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres during the campaigns of 1916 and 1917 ; with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton. London : Cecil Palmer and Hayward, 1918. First edition. Folio, original stiff pictorial wrappers, 52 pp, [21] leaves of monochrome plates, clean and sound, a fine copy.
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# 44687
[DRYSDALE]. KLEPAC, Lou
Russell Drysdale
Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2009 (revised edition). Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp. 384, illustrated; a fine copy.
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# 44686
HEATHCOTE, Christopher; ZIMMER, Jenny
Discovering Dobell
Adelaide : Wakefield Press, and Melbourne : Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2017. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 106, illustrated in colour throughout. New copy. Discovering Dobell offers an intimate glimpse of William Dobell, the artist whose heart remained anchored in the daily life of everyday people, from the streets of Depression-raked London to Sydney’s Kings Cross. …
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# 44436
UHL, Christopher
Albert Tucker
Melbourne : Lansdowne, 1969. Quarto boards in dustjacket, pp. 114, tipped-in plates, light handling marks, but a fine copy. The first major monograph on Tucker.