Australian Artists A-D
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# 42255
[ARKLEY]. CRAWFORD, Ashley and EDGAR, Ray.
Spray. The work of Howard Arkley
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1997. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, lower corner bumped, pp. 152, illustrated. Scarce.
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# 42133
The 9 by 5 impression exhibition (facsimile catalogue)
The 9 by 5 impression exhibition : opened August 17, 1889 at Buxton’s Rooms. Decorations lent and arranged by Messrs Cullis Hill. [Castlemaine : Peter and John Perry, c. 1984]. Duodecimo, pp. 16, self-wrappers after Charles Conder, as new copy. A facsimile of the original 1889 exhibition catalogue, taked from the C. D. Richardson example.
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# 41939
AUDETTE, Yvonne
Yvonne Audette. Paintings and drawings 1949 – 2014 (signed presentation copy from Yvonne Audette to artist Criss Canning)
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 fine copy. First published in 2003 and reissued in a revised and expanded edition in 2014 (as here), this is a fine copy, …
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# 41390
GIBSON, Frank
Charles Conder: His life and his work
With a catalogue of etchings and lithographs by Campbell Dodgson, M.A. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial buckram (a few small stains), decorated endpapers, hinges slightly cracked, top edge gilt, pp.116, occasional scattered foxing, illustrated with colour plates and tissue guards. An enduringly important monograph on the artist by one of …
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# 41560
BALZAC, Honoré de (1799 - 1850); CONDER, Charles (1868 - 1909)
[CONDER]. La Fille aux Yeux d’Or
By Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Ernest Dowson. With six illustrations engraved on wood by Charles Conder. London : Leonard Smithers, 1896. Octavo, purple lettered yellow cloth (a few stains), title page in red and black, pp. vii; 107, six illustrations after Conder engravings; a very good copy. With a sweet gift inscription with arrow-pierced heart …
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# 32714
RUSKIN, John (1819-1900); DATILLO RUBBO, Antonio (1870 - 1955)
Sesame and lilies. (Antonio Dattilo Rubbo’s copy with self-portrait)
London : George Allen, 1901. Complete edition (fifty-second thousand). Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth (edges rubbed), pp. xxxviii; 228, lacking the front free endpaper. Preliminary blank with large pencil signature ‘A Datillo Rubbo) with a small pencil sketch being a self-portrait of the artist folding an artist’s case. Sesame and lilies is comprised of two lectures …
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# 41629
HARPER, Katherine Campbell
The life and work of Rubery Bennett
Sydney : Copperfield, 1979. Folio, full leather, cloth slipcase, pp. 66; 26 tipped-in colour plates. The deluxe edition, limited to 275 copies signed by the artist. Prospectus enclosed.
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# 41018
DOBSON, Rosemary (1920-2012)
Poems (signed copy)
[Mittagong, N.S.W.] : Frensham Press, 1937. Duodecimo, papered boards with red title label to front, black cloth spine (the backstop perished); light foxing to preliminaries, signed by the author on the title page. This slim volume of poetry is the rare first book by the highly-regarded Australian poet Rosemary Dobson. It was published when Dobson was …
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# 40576
WEIGHT, Greg and MCGREGOR, Ken
Artists of the Western Desert : 2006 – 2011 (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, blind embossed ochre cloth in cloth slipcase with draw ribbon, pp. 199, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition limited to only 50 copies, specially bound, with an original signed etching by Mrs Bennett (Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa), numbered in an edition of 50 and signed with her monogram ‘X’. A book of portrait …
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# 41349
DONE, Ken (1940 - )
Ken Done : Australia
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1988. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 128, illustrated, housed in a cloth slipcase (marked). The deluxe edition, limited to 99 copies signed by the artist. Originally issued with a signed print, which is not present here.
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# 41346
TIPPING, Marjorie
Ludwig Becker : artist & naturalist with the Burke & Wills expedition
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1979. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 224, illustrated, in acetate slipcase. A good copy. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery …
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# 41238
ANDREW, Brook (curator)
Taboo
Curated by Brook Andrew. Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2013. Octavo, cards in plastic dustjacket, pp. 175, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 750 copies. Scarce. ‘Published on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Brook Andrew at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, this book presents challenging encounters with a range of …
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# 41059
BUCKMASTER, Ernest (1897-1968)
Oil paintings by E. Buckmaster Athenaeum Art Gallery 188 Collins Street, Melbourne
Exhibition open from 10 a.m. Monday, 10th December, 1951 …. Melbourne : Athenaeum Art Gallery, 1951. Single sheet of card, folding to 200 x 360 mm, the three inner panels with a printed list of 36 works and prices, verso with short essay by the artist; some mild toning, but near fine.
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# 40636
CHEVALIER, Nicholas (1828-1902)
Nicholas Chevalier, colonial artist: autograph letter signed, 1877
Manuscript in ink on single octavo sheet, 180 x 110 mm, dated 5 April 1877, addressed to Thomas Hedderwick, Liberal M.P., discussing a commissioned painting which Chevalier has completed for his neighbours at 9 Porchester Terrace, London (Chevalier’s residence at this time was at 5 Porchester Terrace), signed at the foot ‘Yours, much obliged, N. …
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# 40638
CHEVALIER, Nicholas (1828-1902)
Nicholas Chevalier, colonial artist : autograph letter signed, 1879.
Manuscript in ink, recto of single octavo sheet of writing paper (180 x 115 mm), dated July 1st 1879, addressed to Mrs. Kayser, discussing the difficulty in obtaining tickets for the Royal Academy Conversazione; signed at foot ‘Yours very faithfully, N. Chevalier’; fine. Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902) is considered one of the most important artists active …
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# 40587
AMADIO, Nadine
Orpheus : the song of forever (deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)
Sydney: The Craftsman’s Press, 1983. Quarto, decorated cloth in slipcase, 128pp., illustrated with numerous tipped-in plates by Charles Blackman, fine. Limited to 250 copies signed by author and artist with an original signed lithograph loosely inserted. One of the finest Blackman illustrated publications, a loosely enclosed review by Barrett Reid reads: ‘It is the “Orpheus” …