Australian Art - General
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# 46190
METRO 5 GALLERY
Metro 5 Gallery : Opening Exhibition
Melbourne : Metro 5 Gallery, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 50, illustrated with works byHoward Arkley, Yvonne Audette, John Brack, Sidney Nolan, Robert Jacks, Fred Williams, Jeffrey Smart et al. Price list enclosed.
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# 46158
GRISHIN, Sasha
Contemporary Australian Printmaking : an interpretative history.
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1995. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 192, illustrated.
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# 46062
GRANT, Kirsty et al.
The Joseph Brown Collection at NGV Australia
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, circa 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (featuring Margaret Preston), pp. 224, illustrated. Illustrated catalogue of the Joseph Brown collection, one of the great bequests of Australian art to a public institution.
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# 45963
FOLEY, Fiona et al.
Sense : Ki-Won Park, Kyung-Hee Shin, Fiona Foley, Geoff Lowe.
Seoul : Whanki Museum and Melbourne : The Asialink Centre at the University of Melbourne and the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 1997. Four volumes, octavo, lettered wrappers, each approximately50 pages, illustrated, text in English and Korean. Printed in editions of 1000 and 1500 copies. The complete set of catalogues for the contemporary artists’ exhibition …
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# 45899
BARNETT, P. Neville
Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia
Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The standard edition, limited to 200 copies signed by the author. Quarto, papered boards in dust jacket, 280 pp, extensively illustrated with bookplates, some of which are original graphics tipped-in; a fine copy of this magnificent showcase of Australian bookplates. Artists include Norman Lindsay, Adrian Feint, Alan Jordan, …
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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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# 45996
MORGAN, Denise
ROAR re-viewed 30 years on
with an introduction by Sasha Grishin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, cloth-covered boards with paste-down illustration, stitching exposed on spine with title (as issued), illustrated thoroughly throughout, text by Denise Morgan. The pink boards variant. A publication on the Melbourne Roar Studios and the artists who were its contigents. Sasha Grishin not only descirbed ROAR …
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# 45804
RADFORD, Ron and HYLTON, Jane
Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000. Quarto, laminated wrappers (light handling wear), pp. 144, illustrated throughout with colour plates of works by the artists Jean Appleton, Gwen Barringer, Clarice Beckett, Dorrit Black, Elise Blumann, Stella Bowen, Lina Bryans, Ethel Carrick (Fox), Dora Chapman, Sybil Craig, Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar, Bessie Davidson, Agnes Goodsir, …
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# 45800
[STREETON, Arthur; LINDSAY, Norman et al]
The Baldwin Spencer collection of Australian pictures and works of art
Melbourne : Fine Art Society, 1919. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, edges chipped), 32 pp., 20 plates (some tipped-in colour plates), including Norman Lindsay and others. Edition limited to 350 copies. Foreword by H. Desbrowe-Annear. Limited edition catalogue of the auction held on May 19-21, 1919 at the Fine Art Society’s Galleries, Melbourne, listing 313 …
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# 45798
GRAY, Anne and HESSON, Angela, editors
She-Oak and Sunlight : Australian Impressionism
Anne Gray and Angela Hesson (editors) and contributors. Melbourne, Victoria : Thames & Hudson Australia & National Gallery of Victoria, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. viii, 289, illustrated. New copy. From the publisher’s website: “The Australian Impressionists are among the most loved figures of Australian art, and their work has long formed an imaginative backdrop …
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# 45791
ADAMS, Tate; ZIMMER, Jenny
The Crossley Gallery 1966-1980
Editor Jenny Zimmer; with an introduction by Patrick McCaughey. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Quarto silver-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 220, illustrated throughout. As new copy, mint condition. ‘This book presents the genesis of Tate Adam’s remarkable influence on art in Australia. From the spring of a tiny space in a side street of central Melbourne …
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# 45392
PLANT, Simon
1956 : Melbourne, modernity and the XVI Olympiad
Melbourne : Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine sunned, pp. 111, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. ‘The Museum of Modern Art at Heide present the exhibition of 1956: Melbourne, Modernity and the XVI Olympiad which continues the Museum’s commitment to investigating the motivations and forces which make …
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# 45692
LLOYD, Michael et al.
Surrealism : revolution by night
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 1993. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. xii; 330, extensively illustrated with examples of Australian and international surrealist works, a touch of foxing to edges else a fine copy of the scarce hardcover edition.
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# 45514
GRISHIN, Sasha
Australian printmaking in the 1990s : artist printmakers, 1990-1995
Sydney, NSW : Craftsman House : G+B Arts International, 1997.Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine slightly sunned), cover by Bruno Leti, pp. 336, illustrated, a fine copy. Includes works by Rick Amor, Dean Bowen, G. W. Bot, John Wolseley, Judy Watson, Lin Onus, Gordon Bennett, Petr Herel, Aida Tomescu, Davida Allen, John Coburn, Marian Crawford, Brian …
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# 45059
WORTHLEY, Boyce (editor)
The Torch. Published annually by the Adelaide Teachers’ College. Vol. XIX, December, 1939. (Extensively signed copy)
Adelaide : Printed at The Hassell Press, 1939. Small quarto, original textured paper wrappers with yapp edges (minor edge wear), upper wrapper with design in blue and silver; pp 44, viii; illustrated with numerous reproductions of linocuts by student artists and photographic plates; this copy is that of Vin Mansell, General Secretary of the Students’ …
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# 45361
BELL, George
The George Bell Group Exhibition. A tribute to George Bell
Melbourne : Eastgate Gallery, 1991. Octavo, illusrtated wrappers, pp. [8], foreword by Alan Sumner, price list enclosed. Works by George Bell, Sir Russell Drysdale, Sali Herman, Geoffrey Jones, Charles Purves Smith, Dr. Clive Stephen, Constance Stokes, Alan Sumner, Alan Warren.