Australian Art - General

  • # 47001

    LANE, Terence

    Australian Impressionism (hardcover)

    Melbourne : NGV, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. 352, profusely illustrated in colour. A scholarly survey of Australian impressionism and at the same time a lavishly produced catalogue to accompany the major exhibition held at the NGV, 31 March – 8 August 2007; a very good copy. The scarce hardcover edition. …

  • # 46999

    AMBRUS, Caroline (editor)

    The unseen art scene : 32 Australian women artists

    Canberra : Irrepressible Press, 1995. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. Profiles 32 lesser well known Australian women artists.

  • # 46997

    HUNT, Susan and DAVISON, Graeme

    Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy.

  • # 46990

    GRISHIN, Sasha

    Australian art : a history

    Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, 2013. First edition. Quarto, laminated boards, cloth spine, light handling marks, pp. 570, illustrated. A very good copy. A comprehensive and definitive history of Australian Art. Published at the price of $175 and long since out of print, copies are rare in the market. ‘Grishin presents a story …

  • # 46975

    TAYLOR, Elena et al.

    Australian impressionists in France

    Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2013. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. xiv, 177, illustrated. Australian Impressionists in France provides a new perspective on one of the best-known and loved periods in Australian art. It reveals for the first time the extent of Australian artists’ participation in the global movement of Impressionism, and examines …

  • # 46968

    RADFORD, Ron

    An exhibition of art nouveau in Australia

    Sydney : Australian Gallery Directors Council, [1975]. Royal octavo, pictorial stiff card covers, decorative liner papers, 87 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white, a very good copy. Catalogue of a 1975 touring exhibition (Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, NGV, Queensland Art Gallery, S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery).

  • # 46967

    OLSEN, Penny

    Collecting ladies. Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, illustrated cards, very light handling marks, pp. 238, illustrated. Scare. “Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-1896), the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for ‘lady’ plant collectors. While only about ten per cent of Mueller’s astounding 3,000-strong network …

  • # 46932

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir

    Sydney : very privately printed, ‘saxteenth Octember, thirty-four’. Quarto, printed wrappers, stringbound, pp. [32], illustrations of bookplates by Phyllis Shillito, Freda Robertshaw, George Hay and many others. limited to 150 copies signed by the author. A humorous and amusing printed souvenir for Barnett’s larger work on Woodcut Book Plates.

  • # 46573

    VICTORIAN WOMEN'S ORCHESTRA

    Victorian Women’s Orchestra. Inaugural Concert … Friday, March 9th, 1990, 8.00pm … at Toorak Uniting Church …

    Program will include: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Greig: Norwegian Dances, Copland: Appalachian Spring, Ravel: Bolero. Parkdale, Vic. : VWO, 1990. A5 flyer, printed recto only; fine. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.  

  • # 46525

    WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)

    Women’s Art Register. Catalogue of slides.

    Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [May, 1983]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [2], 6, [8 index of Information Folders]; roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

  • # 46526

    WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)

    Women’s Art Register Extension Project. Catalogue of slides.

    Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [1983?]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [7]; roneo-printed; light creasing, Virginia’ Fraser’s annotations in pencil. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

  • # 46523

    PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY (Melbourne)

    You are invited to the opening of [The] An Australian Group Show. Brian Windridge, Jillian Gibb, Virginia Fraser, Fiona Hall. Photographers Gallery, 344 Punt Rd, South Yarra on Thursday July 3 [1986], 6.00 pm.

    South Yarra, Vic. : Photographers’ Gallery, [1986]. Invitation, 100 x 210 mm, black on white card, printed recto only; with Virginia Fraser’s revision of the first word of the title in felt-tip pen; a couple of light marks. The Photographers’ Gallery (and Workshop) was founded in 1973 by Paul Cox, Ingeborg Tyssen, John F. Williams …

  • # 46919

    GRANT, Kirsty

    In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts

    Melbourne : NGV, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. A very good copy. Includes artworks by Violet Teague, Margaret Preston, Ethel Powers, Helen Ogilvie, Geraldine Rede, Lionel Lindsay, Thea Proctor, Sybil Craig, Noel Counihan, Eric Thake, Bea Maddock, Dorrit Black and others.

  • # 46727

    CROMBIE, Isobel et a.

    Brave New World. Australia 1930s

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, corners a little bumped, small mark to endpaper, pp. 198, extensively illustrated. Includes works by Albert Tucker, Percy Leason, Daniel Vassilieff, Noel Counihan, Max Dupain, Dorothy Thornhill, Fred Ward, Sybil Craig, William Ricketts, Margaret Preston, Arthur Murch, Elioth Gruner, Freda Robertshaw, Albert Namatjira, Lionel Lindsay …

  • # 46821

    SMITH, Jason

    Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

    Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Edges lightly rubbed, a very good copy. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. Quickly sold out. ‘This exceptionally beautiful Geelong Gallery-curated exhibition will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell …

  • # 46234

    NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA

    The Field

    Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1968. Folio, plain white card wrappers with die-cut title (lightly stained, wear to spine and edges), 94pp., extensively illustrated. Catalogue for the exhibition held 21 August – 28 September, 1968. A couple of light creases, previous owner’s name on first page. The seminal exhibition of twentieth century abstraction in Australia, …