Australian Artists A-D
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# 49806
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Schoolgirl takes a flip
[Melbourne : the artist, 1979]. Flipbook, 46 x 127 mm, printed card wrappers (there are a number of different colour versions), staple rusted, 18 leaves, being pictorial cards forming a moving image by flipping the leaves. Blackman created two flip books in 1979, Schoolgirl takes a flip and Hat takes a holiday, each are uncommon. …
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# 49762
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Two
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Bertram Stevens. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1922. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (light sunning, some minor chipping), unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, an excellent copy. Includes essay by A.G. Stephens on Henry Lawson; essay by Hugh McCrae titled ‘Book-Weather’; essay by Lionel Lindsay on The …
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# 49710
[ARKLEY]. CRAWFORD, Ashley and EDGAR, Ray.
Spray. The work of Howard Arkley
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1997 (2001 revised edition). Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 152, illustrated, light handling marks. A very good copy of a rare title.
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# 49750
McGREGOR, Ken; HOBBS, Ralph; STROCCHI, Marina; ROTHWELL, Nicholas
The art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)
/ Ken McGregor, Ralph Hobbs ; with a contribution by Marina Strocchi ; introduced by Nicholas Rothwell. Melbourne, Vic. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Quarto, black cloth boards in illustrated dustjacket, 215 pp, illustrated in colour, with reproductions of hundreds of paintings by this important Alice Springs-based indigenous artist, as well as photographs demonstrating her methods of production. …
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# 49714
BRADBEER, Godwin
Godwin Bradbeer (with a signed letter)
Melbourne : Bulle Galleries and Hong Kong : John Batten Gallery, circa 2000. Quarto, promotional booklet, pp. [20], illustrated. With a signed letter from the artist thanking the recipient for launching his 2001 exhibition at Phyllis Palmer Gallery, Bendigo (old paperclip rust).
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# 49692
McKENZIE, Janet
Godwin Bradbeer
Foreword by Kenneth Wach. Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd, 2018. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 272, illustrated. New copy. Godwin Bradbeer welcomes the reader into the vast, drawing-filled studio of the Melbourne artist. Beginning his career as a photographer, Bradbeer later re-ignited a youthful passion and aptitude for drawing. His works are …
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# 50035
WATTS, Peter et al.
An exquisite eye : the Australian flora & fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly sunned to spine and upper wrapper), pp. 167, illustrated, previous owner’s name to half-title. A very good copy. “This publication coincides with an exhibition of the same title held at the Focus Gallery, Museum of Sydney on the site of first …
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# 50031
ANDREW, Brook
Brook Andrew : Hope & peace
Melbourne : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 2005. Small square quarto (210 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, 35 pp., illustrated in colour, catalogue essay by Marcia Langton; an excellent copy. Catalogue for an exhibition of work by Brook Andrew at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 5 July – 7 August 2005. ‘Includes artist’s statement and works from the exhibition; …
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# 49638
BLACKMAN, Charles
Charles Blackman : works on paper & important paintings
Melbourne : Savill Galleries, circa 1995. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, trifold (pp. 6), illustrated, light handling creases.
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# 49534
McGREGOR, Ken; HOBBS, Ralph; STROCCHI, Marina; ROTHWELL, Nicholas
The art of Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett) (Deluxe edition, with an original etching)
/ Ken McGregor, Ralph Hobbs ; with a contribution by Marina Strocchi ; introduced by Nicholas Rothwell. Melbourne, Vic. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Deluxe edition, limited to 20 numbered copies (this is copy no. 2) and 5 hors commerce copies. Quarto, black cloth boards in slipcase, 215 pp, bound in at the front of the …
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# 49546
GREGORY, John
Carnival in Suburbia. The art of Howard Arkley
Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 2006. Folio, illustrated boards with acetate dustjacket, pp. 214, extensively illustrated. A very good copy of a rare monograph. ‘When he died suddenly in Melbourne in July 1999, at the age of 48, Australian painter Howard Arkley had just achieved his greatest successes, receiving international critical acclaim for his work …
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# 49541
[COSSINGTON SMITH]. JAMES, Bruce
Grace Cossington Smith (Yvonne Audette’s copy)
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1990. Quarto, standard edition, boards with dust jacket (spine a little sunned at spine), pp 190, foxing to endpapers and preliminaries, extensive text on Cossington Smith and her work by the author Bruce James, illustrated throughout with colour and black & white plates, a very good copy. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne …
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# 49510
MABBERLEY, David
Ferdinand Bauer : the nature of discovery
London : Merrell Holberton and Natural History Museum, 1999. Quarto (295 x 240 mm), cloth in dust jacket (slightly sun-faded at spine), pp. 128, illustrated; an excellent copy of a beautiful publication, with stunning works by ‘the greatest of all botanical painters’.
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# 49171
[BECKETT]. HOLLINRAKE, Rosalind.
Clarice Beckett. The artist and her circle (signed copy)
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1979. Oblong folio, boards in illustrated dust jacket (light handling marks), 64pp., a coupe of small spots of foxing, illustrated in colour. Important monograph on the artist, the modernist Melbourne painter from the first half of the twentieth century. Signed and inscribed on the title page by Rosalind Hollinrake.
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# 49216
THOMAS, David.
Criss Canning : the pursuit of beauty (mint copy)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2013. Third edition. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp 192, fully illustrated. Written and published to coincide with the artist’s retrospective exhibition at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. All three editions quickly sold out, as well as a fourth, and are highly sought after. Mint copy, still sealed in publisher’s shrink-wrap. ‘David …
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# 49437
[HESTER, Joy]; BURKE, Janine
R. B. Kitaj (presentation copy from Howard Arkley to his wife Christine Johnson)
London : Marlborough Fine Art, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (rubbed a worn), stain to covers and first few leaves, pp. 80, extensively illustrated, catalogue of works. Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932–2007) was an American-born painter who became a central figure in British contemporary art. Best known for coining the term “School of London”, his work is …