Australian Artists A-D

  • Yvonne Audette. Paintings and drawings 1949 - 2014

    # 50576

    AUDETTE, Yvonne

    Yvonne Audette. Paintings and drawings 1949 – 2014

    Essays by Christopher Heathcote, Bruce James, Gerard Vaughan and Kristy Grant. With a preface by Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014 (revised edition). Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 256, extensively illustrated. A new, pristine copy in publisher’s shrink-wrap. First published in 2003 and reissued in a revised and expanded edition in 2014 (as here), this …

  • Peter Booth. Human nature

    # 50561

    BOOTH, Peter; SMITH, Jason

    Peter Booth. Human nature

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 152, illustrated. ‘The first major survey of work from 1970 – 2003 by one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists’.  

  • Ferdinand Bauer : the Australian natural history drawings

    # 50549

    NORST, Marlene J.

    Ferdinand Bauer : the Australian natural history drawings

    Melbourne : Lothian, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, some light edge wear, pp. 120, illustrated.

  • The George Bell School. Students, Friends, Influences (with a slipcase).

    # 50530

    EAGLE, Mary and MINCHIN, Jan

    The George Bell School. Students, Friends, Influences (with a slipcase).

    Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art and Sydney : Resolution Press, 1981. Quarto, blindstamped cloth in dustjacket (lightly foxed verso), 272 pages fully illustrated. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, featuring artists Eric Thake, Alan Sumner, Yvonne Atkinson, Geoff Jones, Jack Courier, Justin Gill, Sali Herman, Ian Armstrong, Fred Williams, Harry Rosengrave, Len French, Constance Stokes, Russell …

  • Anne Dangar

    # 50488

    EDWARDS, Rebecca

    Anne Dangar

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2024. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 264, illustrated. Scarce.

  • John Brack (hardcover edition)

    # 50494

    GRANT, Kirsty et al.

    John Brack (hardcover edition)

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2009. Quarto, green cloth with pictorial inlay (lightly marked), 248 pp. fully illustrated. Contributions by Helen Brack, Sasha Grishin, Robert Lindsay and Chris McAuliffe. The scarce hardcover, printed in an edition of 1000 copies and sold only at the NGV shop. Printed to accompany the major touring retrospective of …

  • Art by Ernest Buckmaster

    # 50487

    ELLEM, Barry and BUCKMASTER, Norman

    Art by Ernest Buckmaster

    Foreword by Sir William Dargie. Melbourne : Evelyn Fine Arts, 1993. Quarto, cloth in slipcase, pp. 150 illustrated in colour. Limited to 1000 copies signed by Norman Buckmaster. Three reproductions loosely enclosed, along with a catalogue of a show of Buckmaster’s work at The Windsor Hotel. A fine copy.

  • A cat-tale / Mark Twain ; illustrated by Charles Blackman

    # 50474

    TWAIN, Mark

    A cat-tale / Mark Twain ; illustrated by Charles Blackman

    Sydney : Ashton Scholastic, 1987. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp. 48, illustrated; a very good copy.

  • John Brack

    # 50426

    GRANT, Kirsty et al.

    John Brack

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2009. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, spine creased, light handling marks, 248 pp. fully illustrated. Contributions by Helen Brack, Sasha Grishin, Robert Lindsay and Chris McAuliffe. Printed to accompany the major touring retrospective of Brack in 2009-10, an essential reference on the artist.  

  • Adnate : point of view 2019

    # 50423

    McGREGOR, Ken

    Adnate : point of view 2019

    Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2019. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 224, illustrated. Mint copy. Produced in limited numbers, not in distribution. ‘With about half his work done on public walls and half on canvases, Adnate nowadays sees himself as not just a street artist or graffiti artist—simply, an artist. Matt Last (Adnate) is one of street …

  • The flame of flesh. A sonnet sequence by Cyril E. Goode. Illustrations by Charles Crampton

    # 50328

    KIRTLEY, John T.; GOODE, Cyril E.

    The flame of flesh. A sonnet sequence by Cyril E. Goode. Illustrations by Charles Crampton

    Ferntree Gully, Vic. :  John Kirtley, [1952] . Folio, maroon leather (lightly marked, scuffed at head and foot of spine), gilt lettering, light offsetting to endpapers, decorated title page, pp. [20]; with linocut illustrations by Charles Crampton, light scattered foxing. One of only fourteen hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author, this copy is …

  • Blackman Paintings. November 2 to 13, 1954

    # 43559

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Blackman Paintings. November 2 to 13, 1954

    [Melbourne] : [Mirka’s Gallery], 1954. Octavo, folded sheet, catalogue of 30 paintings with titles and prices in guineas. Fine copy. Rare. The highly ephemeral exhibition catalogue from one of Charles Blackman’s first one-man exhibitions, held at Mirka Mora’s studio attached to Mirka’s Cafe in Collins Street.  

  • John Brack

    # 50255

    MILLAR, Ronald

    John Brack

    Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, 1971. Quarto, dustjacket over cloth, slightly sunned to spine, 109 pp. numerous tipped-in plates. A very good copy of the important early monograph on Brack.

  • The cat's plant

    # 50184

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    The cat’s plant

    Etching and aquatint, 20 x 15 cm (plate line); 60 x 41 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (artist’s proof, the published edition was an edition of 30 copies), signed with Blackman studio stamp lower right, a few light spots of foxing, unframed. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) The …

  • James Cant 1911-1982 : retrospective

    # 50168

    RADFORD, Ryan

    James Cant 1911-1982 : retrospective

    [n.l] : Ryan Radford, [1984]. Square octavo, illustrated wrappers (creased), pp 32. Illustrated with black and white images throughout.

  • Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family (standard edition)

    # 50007

    [CORRIGAN, Patrick]

    Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family (standard edition)

    Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. Quarto (365 mm tall), gilt-decorated blue cloth in matching slipcase, pp 148, portrait frontispiece, signed bookplate by Andrew Sibley, essay, tipped-in photographs, forty tipped-in facsimile bookplates commissioned from Australian artists by Pat Corrigan. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author, collector and publisher; printed letterpress, with a …