Australian Artists E-K

  • [KAHAN] Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 12-26 1960 : souvenir programme.

    # 27925

    [KAHAN] Adelaide Festival of Arts, March 12-26 1960 : souvenir programme.

    Adelaide : Adelaide Festival of Arts Executive Committee, 1960. Quarto (275 x 210 mm), colour pictorial wrappers (some light staining to lower wrapper), staple bound; inside wrappers with colour advertisements, pp 71 [1], photographic illustrations, mostly b/w but including a double-page of colour plates of Louis Kahan’s costume designs for Rigoletto, a full-page colour plate …

  • Victor Greenaway (deluxe edition)

    # 27934

    [GREENAWAY, Victor]

    Victor Greenaway (deluxe edition)

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2005. Quarto, silver blocked cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 140, illustrated. New copy in a deluxe binding. Foreword by Janet Mansfield. Introduction by Tim Jacobs. Victor Greenaway is one of the most respected figures in the ceramic art world. The comprehensive selection of work in this book reveals the journey …

  • Nineteen : or compilation box of zines, 2017 - 2018

    # 26234

    HABY, Gracia and JENNISON, Louise [Gracia & Louise]

    Nineteen : or compilation box of zines, 2017 – 2018

    Printed card box in the form of a giant matchbox, 160mm x 230 mm x 45 mm, containing 19 handmade zines by the two artists created in 2017 and 2018. Created in an edition of 5 boxed sets hand lettered title card. This is set number 4, all the editioned zines are also edition number …

  • No standing, only dancing : photographs by Rennie Ellis. (Deluxe edition with photograph)

    # 26172

    van WYK, Susan; NEGUS, George

    No standing, only dancing : photographs by Rennie Ellis. (Deluxe edition with photograph)

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Quarto, black Brillianta linen with debossed Rennie Ellis signature and clear foil finish, hand crafted slip case, pp. 135, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 110 copies (of which 100 were for sale) with an original Rennie Ellis photograph Dino Ferrari, Toorak Road 1976 (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm) …

  • Ildiko Kovacs. Down the line 1980-2010 (signed copy)

    # 26318

    [KOVACS]. MALOON, Terrence and CUNNINGHAM, Daniel Mudie

    Ildiko Kovacs. Down the line 1980-2010 (signed copy)

    Sydney : Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, 2011. Quarto, cloth-bound boards, pp. 128, illustrated throughout with colour plates of the artist’s works, text by Terrence Maloon and Daniel Mudie Cunningham whom curated the exhibition that this catalogue was produced for. A very good copy. Signed presentation inscription from Ildiko Kovacs to endpaper.

  • Eugene and Louise von Guérard : a deed of release document bearing the signatures of the artist and his wife, dated October 1871.

    # 22689

    [GUÉRARD, Eugene von and GUÉRARD, Louise von]

    Eugene and Louise von Guérard : a deed of release document bearing the signatures of the artist and his wife, dated October 1871.

    On the evening of 12 September 1871 the colonial artist Eugene von Guérard and his wife Louise were passengers on a train which was involved in a collision as it was returning to Flinders Street from Prahran. Ironically, the accident took place only a short distance from their residence in East Melbourne. The injuries both …

  • Twenty-four: a compilation box of zines, 2015–2016

    # 25420

    HABY, Gracia and JENNISON, Louise [Gracia & Louise]

    Twenty-four: a compilation box of zines, 2015–2016

    Wooden display box with sliding perspex lid, 325 x 425 x  42mm, containing 24 handmade zines by the two artists created in 2015 and 2016. Created in an edition of 5 boxed sets with hand lettered title card. This is set number 5. All the zines are initalled in pen by the artists. ‘We are …

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

    # 25383

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Twelve.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1925. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a very good copy. Includes essay  by Lionel Lindsay on Heysen’s Flower Pieces; essay by Julian Ashton on M. Napier Waller; and an essay by George Bell on …

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

    # 25382

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Sixteen.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1926. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, edges flecked and mild foxing to outer leaves, but a very good copy. Includes essay by James McDonald on the later works of  Arthur Streeton; essay by Basil …

  • Victor Greenaway

    # 24956

    [GREENAWAY, Victor]

    Victor Greenaway

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 140, illustrated. New copy. Foreword by Janet Mansfield. Introduction by Tim Jacobs. Victor Greenaway is one of the most respected figures in the ceramic art world. The comprehensive selection of work in this book reveals the journey of this artist in pursuit of strength …

  • Kenneth Jack drawings.

    # 24067

    JACK, Kenneth; KLEPAC, Lou

    Kenneth Jack drawings.

    With a foreword by Lou Klepac and an introduction by the artist. Sydney : Beagle Press, 2006. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 132, illustrated.

  • Robert Jacks - two exhibition catalogues

    # 19762

    JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)

    Robert Jacks – two exhibition catalogues

    Robert Jacks. Harmonice Mundi : works of the 1970’s and 1990’s. Melbourne : Robert Lindsay Gallery, 1994. Pp. 4, essay by Patrick McCaughey. Robert Jacks. Flags and other distractions. Sydney : Tim Olsen Gallery, 2000. Quarto, pp. 4, illustrated.

  • Robert Jacks : underwater garden - thinking of Miro

    # 20595

    [JACKS, Robert]

    Robert Jacks : underwater garden – thinking of Miro

    Melbourne : Metro 5 Gallery, 2003. Quarto, white wrappers, illustrated front, pp. 11, some illustrations. Essay by David Thomas, includes small piece of ephemera from the exhibition.

  • Ildiko Kovacs : looking through

    # 20263

    KOVACS, Ildiko

    Ildiko Kovacs : looking through

    Sydney : Martin Browne Contemporary, [2014]. Quarto, wrappers, front illustration, pp. [40], colour illustrations throughout. Includes exhibition invitation and price list.

  • Walpurgis and other poems

    # 17456

    JACKSON, Francis; HESLING, Bernard (illustrator)

    Walpurgis and other poems

    Sydney : Shakespeare Press, [1931]. First edition. Octavo, original wrappers with design by Bernard Hesling (edge wear, spine with paper split), inside upper wrapper with bookplate of St. Sophia’ Library (donation of John Mullins), half-title with offsetting from bookplate and St. Sophia’s shelf number; pp 54, with 8 dramatic full-page illustrations by Hesling; foxing to …

  • Cultural transaction [with] Towla

    # 18751

    HITTI, Deanna

    Cultural transaction [with] Towla

    An extraordinary collection of works by contemporary Melbourne artist Deanna Hitti, comprising her artist’s book Towla and two monumental wall pieces titled Cultural Transaction. Towla [Melbourne] : the artist, 2017. Folio, screenprinted buckram, screenprinted endpapers, pp. 40; [8]; 40; screenprinted on Somerset 115gsm Bookwove paper, housed in a screenprinted clamshell box. Limited to 10 copies plus three …