Australian Art - General
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# 50427
REED, John (President of the C.A.S.)
Royal Tour Contemporary Art Society Exhibition 1954
Melbourne : Contemporary Art Society, 1954. Folio, single sheet, folded, designed by James Birrell, list of 28 works. Corner a little creased, otherwise very good. Catalogue includes works by Sam Atyeo, Vladmir (Yosl) Bergner, Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, John Brack, Robert ‘Bob’ Dickerson, Inge King, Ian Fairerather, Donald Friend, Sali Herman, Joy Hester, Jackueline (Jacqueline) …
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# 50414
PALMER, Maudie (editor).
Encounters with Australian modern art (slipcased edition)
Text by Christopher Heathcote, Patrick McCaughey, Sarah Thomas ; edited by Maudie Palmer. Melbourne : Macmillan Art, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 273, illustrated, a near mint copy. Housed in a slipcase. A survey of modern Australian art, largely drawn from the collections of the Tarrawarra Museum of Art. Includes works by Fred Williams, …
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# 50303
ZIMMER, Jenny
Stained glass in Australia
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1984. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. viii; 178, illustrated. A fine copy. A history of stained glass in Australia, from historical to contemporary.
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# 50304
ROONEY, Robert
Innocence and danger : an artist’s view of childhood
Melbourne : Heide Part and Art Gallery, 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Charles Blackman, pp. 32, illustrated. Includes illustrations of works by John Perceval, Charles Blackman, Joy Hester, Danila Vassilieff, John Brack, et al.
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# 50299
EDWARDS, Geoffrey
Art of Glass : Glass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing and the National Gallery of Victoria, 1998. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 208, illustrated in colour. A fine copy. Jointly published by the National Gallery of Victoria and Macmillan Publishers Australia this book is the first publication to document in depth the nature, extent and history of the National Gallery …
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# 50241
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. Very good condition, some light handling …
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# 50167
EAGLE, Mary and MINCHIN, Jan.
The George Bell School : students, friends, influences (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art and Sydney: Resolution Press, 1981. Quarto, blindstamped leather bound boards in orange slipcase, 272 pages, fully illustrated, internally clean. The deluxe edition limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by twelve artists from the school on the limitation page as issued: Eric Thake, Alan Sumner, Yvonne Atkinson, Geoff Jones, Jack Courier, …
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# 50083
HUNT, Susa and CARTER, Paul
Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. ‘Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle Le Havre and explores the story behind the Baudin expedition which produced …
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# 50073
ZIMMER, Jenny and ZIMMER, Klaus
Glass from Australia and New Zealand at the Hessiches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
Melbourne : Ken Lockwood, Craft Arts Pty. Ltd., 1984. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 88, illustrated. Text by Jenny Zimmer, translated from English to German by Klaus Zimmer. Essays, catalogue of works, biographies, bibliography.
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# 49812
HAESE, Richard.
Rebels and Precursors. The revolutionary years in Australian art (signed copy)
Melbourne: Allen Lane, 1981. First edition. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, 324pp. extensively illustrated. Important work on the Angry Penguins, their contemporaries and influence on modern Australian art. Signed by the author Richard Haese, and Angry Penguins Max Harris and Barrett Reid.
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# 49831
MENDHAM, Dawn; WEST, Margie
Contemporary Territory
Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 1994. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers; pp. 80; illustrated in colour, with b/w portraits of the artists; a very good copy.; loosely inserted is the ‘Catalogue Supplement’ , containing the exhibition’s opening address by Justice David Angel. This catalogue for an exhibition showcasing …
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# 49984
SMITH, Bernard (1916 - 2011)
European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (third edition)
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2022. Third edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 350, illustrated. New copy ‘From Australia’s greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of the Australian classic. Featuring a new introduction by Sheridan Palmer and Greg Lehman. Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia’s greatest art historian and …
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# 49700
"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 (lightly foxed, ink stain to upper wrapper extending to title page, tape residue to spine and fore edge of upper wrapper, water stain to lower margin), pp. 108, a good copy of a rare publication. Issue 6. …
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# 49707
GRAY, Anne; JORDAN, Caroline; HOOPER, Juliana
Modern Australian women artists : paintings, prints and potters. The Andrée Harkness Collection
Melbourne : Almaled Pty. Ltd., 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards (reproducing the woodcut Mosman Bridge by Margaret Preston), pp. [x]; 242, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. ‘The most comprehensive book on modern Australian women artists published, this book represents some of Australia’s most important women artists between 1870s-1960s, a dynamic period in …
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# 49662
RADFORD, Ron
Early Australian sculpture. From its beginnings up to 1920
Ballarat : Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [52], illustrated.
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# 49665
NUTTALL, William J.
Contemporary Australian Abstraction
Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 1996. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. [20], illustrated. Includes works by Paul Boston, Angela Brennan, Peter Cooley, Emily Kngwarreye, Richard Larter, Gloria Petyarre, Rover Thomas, Turkey Tolson, and others.