Australian Artists A-D

  • Robert Clinch. Fanfare for the common man (signed and inscribed copy)

    # 50870

    CLINCH, Robert

    Robert Clinch. Fanfare for the common man (signed and inscribed copy)

    Ballarat : Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 108, illustrated. Essay by David Thomas, interview by Julie Collett. Signed and inscribed by the artist, dated 2016.

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  • Arthur Boyd Retrospective

    # 50850

    [BOYD, Arthur]. PEARCE, Barry.

    Arthur Boyd Retrospective

    Sydney: The Beagle Press for The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 200pp. extensively illustrated. A fine copy.

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  • Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845

    # 50803

    JONES, Phillip

    Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2021. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 380. illustrated. A very good copy. George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute …

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  • Paddy Bedford : crossing frontiers

    # 50788

    PETITJEAN, Georges et al.

    Paddy Bedford : crossing frontiers

    Utrecht : AAMU–Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art ; [Heule, Belgium] : Snoeck, 2009. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 95, illustrated. Text in French. New copy. Bedford’s work transcends the levels of the local and the culturally determined in a surprising and convincing way. In 2006, Paddy Bedford’s oeuvre was honoured with a grand retrospective in the …

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  • Magic Realism : A Collection of Works by Jill Del’Mace

    # 50786

    DEL'MACE, Jill [DEL-MACE, Gill], 1947 - 2024

    Magic Realism : A Collection of Works by Jill Del’Mace

    [Melbourne] : Export Australia, 1989. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, colour plates, biography, gallery label for Delshan Gallery, of which Del-Mace was a co-owner. Scarce catalogue of the late Jill Del’Mace’s haunting realist images with full page colour plates and accompanying prose. Later in her career, the artist returned to the original spelling of her name Gill …

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  • Robert Dowling. Tasmanian son of Empire

    # 50780

    JONES, John

    Robert Dowling. Tasmanian son of Empire

    Melbourne : NGV, 2010. Octavo, illustrated boards, corners slightly bumped, pp. 192, illustrated. Dowling holds a special place in the history of Australian art, as the first artist to be be trained in Australia and was renowned for his paintings of pastoralists, indigenous people and biblical themes. This is the first major exhibition of his …

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  • The George Bell School. Students, Friends, Influences.

    # 50777

    EAGLE, Mary and MINCHIN, Jan

    The George Bell School. Students, Friends, Influences.

    Melbourne: Deutscher Fine Art and Sydney : Resolution Press, 1981. Quarto, blindstamped cloth in dustjacket (handling creases), 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 Drysdale. This …

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  • Yvonne Audette. Paintings and drawings 1949 - 2014

    # 50751

    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 …

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  • The pastels of Cumbrae Stewart (expanded hardcover edition)

    # 50722

    [CUMBRAE STEWART]

    The pastels of Cumbrae Stewart (expanded hardcover edition)

    With an appreciation by John Shirlow. Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, n.d. [1921?]. Quarto (288 mm tall), quarter-cloth over papered boards, corners a little bumped, text and 23 leaves of plates in colour and black and white, advertisements at rear. The expanded hard cover edition (a wrappered edition was also published with 16 plates). Limited to …

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  • A Melbourne family posed outside their mansion (possibly on St. Kilda Road), c.1895.

    # 50406

    DE PINNA, Prof. Francis "Frank"

    A Melbourne family posed outside their mansion (possibly on St. Kilda Road), c.1895.

    Large format silver albumen print, 230 x 285 mm, on photographer’s studio mount of brown card with gilt decorative border and imprint: ‘Prof. de Pinna / Melb.’; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. Relatively little is known about Prof. Francis “Frank” de Pinna, artist, musician and photographer (1864-1914), although he was …

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  • Jamie Boyd. Paintings and drawings 1965 - 1986.

    # 50695

    BOYD, Jamie (1948 - 2025)

    Jamie Boyd. Paintings and drawings 1965 – 1986.

    [London?] : the artist, circa 1986. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, dustjacket (verso foxed, sunned), pp. 68, illustrated.

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  • The bookplates of Graham Cox

    # 50691

    FERSON, Mark J.; KING, Richard

    The bookplates of Graham Cox

    Sydney : The New Australian Bookplates Society, 2021. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 20, illustrated, erratum slip. With a warm inscription from Richard King, and signed by Mark Ferson.

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  • David Driden

    # 50692

    RYMILL, Arthur

    David Driden

    Adelaide : the artist, 1972. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, illustrated dustjacket (lightly foxed), pp. [28]; foreword by Russell Drysdale, 34 colour and monochrome plates.

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  • [PROCTOR; REES; COBURN etc.] The Society of Artists. Exhibition of drawings and prints 1962.

    # 50689

    Society of Artists, Sydney.

    [PROCTOR; REES; COBURN etc.] The Society of Artists. Exhibition of drawings and prints 1962.

    [Sydney : The Society, 1962]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (slightly sunned), staple bound, [12] pp, illustrated, including advertisements. Catalogue listing 86 works with prices, including artists Thea Proctor (5), Rees, Coburn, Appleton, Wakelin and Cassab.

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  • [DOBELL; PROCTOR; NORA HEYSEN etc.] The Society of Artists. Exhibition of drawings and prints 1960.

    # 50688

    Society of Artists, Sydney.

    [DOBELL; PROCTOR; NORA HEYSEN etc.] The Society of Artists. Exhibition of drawings and prints 1960.

    [Sydney : The Society, 1960]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [38] pp, including advertisements. Catalogue listing 104 works with prices, including artists Dobell, Nora Heysen, Thea Proctor (5), Thornhill, Counihan, Santry and Gilliland; essay on Chartres Cathedral by Lloyd Rees.

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  • Peter Booth: Drawings 1977-1987

    # 50680

    BOOTH, Peter

    Peter Booth: Drawings 1977-1987

    Melbourne : Deutscher Gertrude Street, 1989. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp. [52]. All works exhibited reproduced in black and white.

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