Australian Artists A-D
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# 43567
JOHNSON, Heather
Roy de Maistre. The Australian Years 1894 – 1930
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1988. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (laminate lifting), pp. 138, illustrated in colour throughout. The main scholarly text on this period of De Maistre’s career, including a list of exhibitions, bibliography and biography.
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# 43553
[BLACKMAN]. AMADIO, Nadine
The Lost Domains
Sydney: Reed, 1980. First edition. Large folio, boards in illustrated dust jacket, light foxing to endpapers and preliminaries, housed in a cloth slipcase, 144pp, magnificently illustrated with Blackman’s paintings of his most famous series, including Alice in Wonderland, Schoolgirls, Gardens, Nudes, Children Playing etc. An important monograph.
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# 43538
[DAVILA]. BRETT, Guy and BENJAMIN, Roger
Juan Davila (signed copy)
with writings by Juan Davila. Melbourne : The Miegunya Press, 2006. Quarto, cloth covered boards with illustrated dust jacket, pp. 254, foreword by Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, essays by Guy Brett and Roger Benjamin, extensive text by Davila on his work from the 1970s through to the 2000s covering topics of Aboriginality, Adelaide, Woomera and Courbet. …
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# 43458
[DAVIES, David]
David Davies : paintings, at Malvern Fine Art Gallery
[Melbourne : Malvern Fine Art Gallery, 1978]. Quarto, folding card, bifold. Announcement of the exhibition held at Malvern Fine Art Gallery, presented by Tony Cowden. List of locations works have been exhibited from.
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# 43454
GRANEK, Walter
A line around a dream : Charles Blackman
Melbourne : [Laurine Diggins Fine Art, 1994]. Folio, pictorial wrappers, 36pp, illustrated with colour images.
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# 42531
[BUNNY, Rupert].
Paintings by Rupert Bunny from private collections
Langwarrin : McClelland Gallery, [1972]. Narrow folio, exhibition catalogue, pp. [4], introduction by David Thomas, catalogue of 67 works.
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# 42618
ZIMMER, Jenny
Art of the Absolons : John Absolon of London & John de Mansfield Absolon in Western Australia 1869-1879 (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth with pictorial inlay, pp 192, illustrated, in matching slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed and numbered by the author. ‘John Absolon was a well-known nineteenth-century London water-colour artist. John de Mansfield Absolon, one of his artist sons, married a daughter of Robert Mace …
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# 43315
ARKLEY, Howard (1951 - 1999)
Howard Arkley
Melbourne : Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, 2006. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (with an image of Arkley’s portrait of Nick Cave), pp. 30, a fine copy of this illustrated catalogue of Arkley’s 2006 exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square Brochure and exhibition prepared by Jason Smith, additional …
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# 42765
CLARKE, Glen
Suppression = alienation = oppression
Melbourne : Champion, 1979. Quarto, coil bound, illustrated wrappers, pp. [44], photographically illustrated. Photographically illustrated artist’s book.
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# 43299
DOBELL, William
Drawings of Sir William Dobell 1930 – 1970
Newcastle : Newcastle City Art Gallery, 1971. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 8, illustrated.
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# 43298
DOBELL, WIlliam et al
Sir William Dobell. Recent paintings
Newcastle : Newcastle City Art Gallery, 1970. Octavo, folding exhibition catalogue, pp. [6], cover illustration, slight creasing else a very good copy. Accompanied by the exhibition invite card, the list of forthcoming exhibitions at Newcastle City Art Gallery, and an advertising brochure for the Home and Studio of Sir William Dobell.
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# 43151
ARKLEY, Howard (1951 - 1999)
Howard Arkley : The home show. Australian Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale of Art 1999 (with associated invitations and cards)
Melbourne : Australia Council, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 44, colour illustrations. A fine copy. Loosely enclosed, the illustrated invitation card for the Australian Launch of the exhibition at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne; the diecut illustrated invitation card for the Venetian Launch of the exhibition; and six illustrated postcards from the exhibition, one inscribed to noted …
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# 43076
[DAWS, Lawrence]. BRUCE, Candice
Lawrence Daws : asylum in Eden (signed presentation copy for Criss Canning)
Brisbane : University of Queensland Art Museum, 2000. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp. 152, signed and inscribed by Lawrence Daws on title page to contemporary painter Criss Canning, illustrated throughout with colour and black & white plates, scholarly text, artist biography, list of solo and group exhibitions and public collections. A fine copy.
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# 43068
BENNETT, Gordon
Gordon Bennett
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2007. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 136, illustrated. This publication accompanies an exhibition with the same title which toured Brisbane, Darwin and Perth. It examined the artist’s work since 1987.
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# 42868
BOOTHBY, Mabel F. (1870 - 1944)
An autobiography of a laughing jackass
Melbourne : P.T. Law & Co., [1916]. Second edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear), string bound, a few marks to the lower wrapper, gift inscription to title page, dated 1916, pp. 12, one colour and one folding black and white plate, light toning, a good example. A charming children’s book about the daily life …
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# 42564
CANNING, Criss
Criss Canning : new works from the studio
Melbourne : Mossgreen, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrapper’s pp. 24, illustrated.