Australian Artists E-K

  • Goat on a boat (original cover art for the publication)

    # 42931

    HOUGHTON, Suzanne

    Goat on a boat (original cover art for the publication)

    Colour pencil and watercolour on artist’s card, 310 x 295 mm, signed lower right, accompanied by a signed letter and related ephemera. The original cover illustration for the children’s book Goat on a boat (Sydney : Omnibus, 2019), written by Nick Dent and illustrated by Suzanne Houghton. ‘When a goat arrives on a rocky island, the …

  • Dear Sun. The letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed (from the library of Criss Canning)

    # 42360

    BURKE, Janine

    Dear Sun. The letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed (from the library of Criss Canning)

    Melbourne : Heinemann, 1995. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 276, illustrated. Signed by Criss Canning in ink on the title page. Provenance: Criss Canning, acquired in 2023    

  • The recent work of Elioth Gruner.

    # 42413

    Gruner, Elioth

    The recent work of Elioth Gruner.

    Art in Australia De Luxe Edition March 1929. Quarto, half-cloth decorated boards with title label, 38 plates, many in colour tipped-in. Limited to 40 copies, of which 30 are offered for sale, containing a special colour reproduction which is an engraver’s proof tipped in, titled ‘Man and Mountain’, which is signed by the artist. The …

  • H. F. Weaver-Hawkins (Raokin) 1893 - 1977

    # 42681

    WEAVER-HAWKINS, H. F.

    H. F. Weaver-Hawkins (Raokin) 1893 – 1977

    Sydney : The Macquarie Galleries, 1978. DL size exhibition catalogue, pp. [8], light foxing, illustrated.

  • Sic Transit

    # 42503

    HENSON, Bill (1955 -)

    Sic Transit

    London : Stanley/Barker, 2020. Quarto, 310 x 300 mm, blind lettered silk in illustrated dustjacket, pp. [164]; fully illustrated photobook of Bill Henson images, printed by EBS in Verona, Italy, housed in a lettered slipcase. New copy, acquired directly from the publisher, of this rare edition which sold out within weeks of publication. The title Sic …

  • Bill Henson (dustjacket design with face of a girl)

    # 42493

    HEYWARD, Michael

    Bill Henson (dustjacket design with face of a girl)

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 75, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in mint condition, purchased new from the NGV at the time of publication. The standard edition, printed with three variant dustjacket illustrations in equal numbers (marble sculpture, face of a girl and a …

  • Bill Henson (dust jacket design with seascape)

    # 42492

    HEYWARD, Michael

    Bill Henson (dust jacket design with seascape)

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 75, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in mint condition, purchased new from the NGV at the time of publication. The standard edition, printed with three variant dustjacket illustrations in equal numbers (marble sculpture, face of a girl and a …

  • Art, love, and life : Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox

    # 42468

    [CARRICK, Ethel; FOX, E. Phillips]

    Art, love, and life : Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox

    Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 2011. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp 174. Art exhibition monograph detailing the rich artistic relationship between Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox, with over 140 colour illustrations. A very good copy.

  • Heysen. Recollections of the Cedars (signed copy)

    # 42415

    [HEYSEN]. HEYSEN, Sue

    Heysen. Recollections of the Cedars (signed copy)

    North Adelaide : Sue Heysen, 1991. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 86, text in three parts; ‘the early days of Heysen’, ‘my memories of the artist’ and ‘a time to remember’, a recount of the life of Sir Hans Heysen from the personal and intimate view of his daughter-in-law, illustrated throughout with colour and black & …

  • James Gleeson : images from the shadows

    # 42410

    [GLEESON]. FREE, Renee

    James Gleeson : images from the shadows

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1993. Quarto, boards in illustrated dust jacket, pp. 197, light foxing to preliminaries, illustrated throughout. First edition; a revised edition was published in 1996.  

  • Bill Henson : landscapes

    # 42350

    HENSON, Bill

    Bill Henson : landscapes

    Castlemaine : Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 2016. Oblong quarto, wrappers, pp. [x]; 8 colour plates with text; [6]. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Catalogue for exhibition Bill Herson: Landscapes held at Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum from 30 April to 30 June 2016

  • Robert Jacks : the McGarvie street paintings

    # 42324

    [JACKS, Robert]

    Robert Jacks : the McGarvie street paintings

    Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 15, 14 leaves of plates. Exhibition catalogue of 14 works, essay by Paul McGillick.

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fourteen. Xmas Number

    # 17622

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fourteen. Xmas Number

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1925. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (bookseller sticker on recto wrapper), unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, some discolouration to spine and verso wrapper. A special Christmas Edition with an essay by William Moore on the revival in New Zeland; …

  • A signed Christmas card from Sali Herman

    # 42179

    HERMAN, Sali (1898–1993)

    A signed Christmas card from Sali Herman

    Single sheet, folded twice, with a colour reproduction of one of Herman’s paintings ‘Outback’ and a manuscript inscription in Sali Herman’s hand ‘Compliments of the season and best wishers for 1951, Mrs & S. Herman’.

  • Hans Heysen (limited edition)

    # 42184

    ANDREWS, Rebecca

    Hans Heysen (limited edition)

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth with pictorial inlay, slipcase, pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy, as new of the limited edition version, specially bound with slipcase. The Hans Heysen catalogue was written by Rebecca Andrews to accompany a major retrospective of the artists’ work in 2008/-09 held at the …

  • Sali Herman (signed presentation copy for his mentor George Bell)

    # 42178

    THOMAS, Daniel.

    Sali Herman (signed presentation copy for his mentor George Bell)

    Melbourne: Georgian House, 1962. First edition. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, 38 plates, a couple of spots of foxing. An important early monograph in fine condition in the Australian Art Monographs series. This copy signed and inscribed ‘To George Bell, he who guided me out of Darkness, his ever grateful Disciple, Sali February 1963’. Swiss-born painter …