Australian Art - General
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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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 33068
SAVILL GALLERIES
Traditional Australian painting 1880 – 1925
Melbourne : Savill Galleries, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8]. Exhibition catalogue illustrated in colour. Price list and invitation enclosed. Artists include Margaret Preston, Nicholas Chevalier, Ethel Carrick Fox, Sydney Long, Arthur Streeton etc.
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# 33049
PALMER, Maudie (editor).
Encounters with Australian modern art (slipcase 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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# 33047
PALMER, Maudie
100 works on paper from the Heide Collection
Melbourne : Heide Park and Art Gallery, 1984. Quarto, illustrated white wrappers, pp. 12, no illustrations inside. Exhibition catalogue of 100 works on paper, by prominent Australian artists like Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Mirka Mora.
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# 33043
BOYD, Arthur (1920 - 1999)
A tribute to Arthur Boyd
Sydney : Savill Galleries, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [40]. Exhibition catalogue illustrated in colour. Essay by Tom Rosenthal.
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# 32679
TERRY, Martin
Maritime paintings of early Australia 1788-1900
Pictorial researchers Alexandra Bertram and Alisa Bunbury. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1998. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (spine sunned), preliminaries foxed, pp. xiii, 111, illustrated.
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# 32989
BUTLER, Roger
Poster art in Australia : the streets as art galleries – walls sometimes speak
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 104, illustrated. Published in conjunction with the exhibition The streets as art galleries – walls sometimes speak : Poster art in Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 5 November 1993 – 6 February 1994. Includes works by Norman Lindsay, William Dobell, Mandy Martin, James …
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# 32995
BUTLER, Roger
Printed: images in colonial Australia 1801 – 1901 [with] Printed: images by Australian artists 1885 – 1955 [and] Printed: images by Australian Artists 1942 – 2020
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2007 – 2021. Three volumes, quarto, pictorial boards in dustjackets, light handling wear but very fine, pp. 294; 328; 416, extensively illustrated in colour, a fine set. The complete set of Roger Butler’s comprehensive survey of printmaking in Australia. The first volume : ‘This volume follows printmaking through a …
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# 32980
PRESTON, Margaret et al.
Motif & meaning : Aboriginal influences in Australian art 1930 – 1970
Ballarat : Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (reproducing Margaret Preston), pp. 40, illustrated. A fine copy. Includes works by Carl Cooper, Gert Sellheim, Margaret Preston, Martin Boyd, Frances Burke, Olive Nock, Roma Thompson et al.