Australian Art - General
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# 42560
RAMSAY, Christine Wu
Days Gone By, volume 2: A meeting of East and West
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 119, illustrated. New copy. In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life in an ever-widening world – as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her …
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# 42559
ADAMS, Tate; ZIMMER, Jenny
The Crossley Gallery 1966-1980 (deluxe edition)
Editor Jenny Zimmer; with an introduction by Patrick McCaughey. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Quarto gilt-lettered cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 220, illustrated throughout. One of a very small number of copies specially bound in a deluxe binding with slipcase. As new copy, mint condition. ‘This book presents the genesis of Tate Adam’s remarkable influence on …
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# 42476
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.
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# 42382
PRUNSTER, Ursula
Belle-Île : Monet, Russell & Matisse in Brittany (from the library of Criss Canning)
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 132, illustrated. Curated by Ursula Prunster with contributions by Ann Galbally, Albie Thoms and Paula Dredge. Provenance: Criss Canning, signed by her on the endpaper, acquired from the artist in 2023.
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# 42252
Christie's Australia Pty. Ltd
The Harold E. Mertz Collection of Australian Art
Melbourne : Christie’s Australia Pty. Ltd., 2000. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, 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, Sidney Nolan, …
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# 42125
REES, Lloyd et al.
The Society of Artists. Spring Exhibition 1961
Sydney : the Society, 1961. Quarto, lettered wrappers (light vertical creases), pp. [32], catalogue of works, foreword by the President Lloyd Rees, essay on abstract expressionism by John Coburn, biography on Douglas Dundas by Lloyd Rees, catalogue of works. ‘In 1888 the artist Tom Roberts established the Victorian Artists’ Society but he and Arthur Streeton …
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# 41502
AUSTRALIAN PRINT WORKSHOP
Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria Print Folio
Melbourne : Australian Print Workshop, 1991. Cloth covered clamshell box made by Ilme Simmul (a few marks), 80 x 59 cms, with title label, housing a title sheet and six original signed graphics by leading Australian artists. Limited to 85 numbered sets, the plates destroyed after printing. Occasional light handling marks, a few spots of …
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# 41850
ALBRECHT, Kurt
Nineteenth century Australian gold & silver smiths
Melbourne : Hutchinson Australia, 1969. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly marked), pp. 69, light foxing to preliminaries, illustrated.
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# 41845
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number fifty-four. Landscapes by Robert Johnson.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1934. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (staple rust stains to wrapper, tear to head of spine), 70pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, internally very clean, an excellent copy. Includes an essay on the artist by B.J. Waterhouse and an appreciation …
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# 41628
[MAX HARRIS; JOHN REED]
[ANGRY PENGUINS] Ern Malley’s Journal (complete set)
Volume 1, nos. 1-4. Heidelberg, Vic. : M. Harris, J. Reed, B. Reid, November 1952 – October, 1953; Volume 2, nos 1 – 2, Heidelberg, Vic. : M. Harris, J. Reed, B. Reid, May – November 1955 . Six issues, octavo, original wrappers (cover to Vol. 2, No. 1 by Charles Blackman; cover to Vol. …
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# 41777
[LINDSAY, Lionel]. STEPHENS, A. G.
Woodcuts. With an original woodcut by Lionel Lindsay.
Decorations by Roy Davies. Sydney: Tyrrells’ Limited, 1923. Quarto, illustrated boards with cord ties (edges rubbed), 34pp. with essays on the history of woodcuts, and the woodcut in Australia, as well a catalogue of woodcuts for sale by Lionel Lindsay, Margaret Preston, Napier Waller and Roy Davies et al. Limited to 125 copies, of which …
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# 41750
LARWILL, David et al.
Roar again
Mark Schaller, David Larwill, Mark Howson, Karan Hayman, Wayne Eager, Judi Singleton, Peter Ferguson, Jill Noble, Mike Nicholls, Sarah Faulkner, Andrew Ferguson, Pasquale Giardino : 22 August – 9 September 2001. Melbourne : Metro 5, 2001. Quarto, single card, folded, pp. [8], essay by David Thomas, illustrated.
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# 41799
SLATER, John
Through artists’ eyes : Australian suburbs and their cities 1919-1945 (hardcover)
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (reproducing a work by Colin Colahan), pp. xviii; 237, sunning to spine, extensively illustrated with hundreds of images. ‘Shows how artists recorded the coming of Modernity, and the lives of ordinary people at work and at leisure. This book also explores how, at a time …
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# 41798
HUNT, Susan 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, illustrated wrappers, pp. 150, gift inscription to title page, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia.
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# 41618
SCHOFIELD, Anne and FAHY, Kevin
Australian Jewellery : 19th and early 20th Century
Sydney : David Ell, 1990. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, bookplate from the Chapman collection to front pastedown, pp. [viii]; 284, extensively illustrated. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies.
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# 41244
BARNETT, P. Neville et alia
The Australian Ex Libris Society. Journal No. 1
Sydney: the Society, 1930. Octavo, printed wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. 48, illustrated with eight bookplates reproduced by Norman Lindsay, and others. Limited to 300 copies (this is copy 253). Bookplate for Jean and Jeff Bidgood to inside of front wrapper. A valuable collection of miniature artworks by Australian artists of the interwar period.