Australian Artists E-K

  • Sculpture of Rayner Hoff

    # 44749

    HOFF, Rayner et al.

    Sculpture of Rayner Hoff

    With text by the Rt. Hon. the Earl Beauchamp, K.G., K.C.M.G., Howard Ashton, E.C. Temple Smith and W. Bede Dalley. Sydney : Sunnybrook Press, 1934. Quarto, illustrated cloth, dustjacket (very slight edge wear, a fine copy), pp. 113; [8]. Limited to 100 copies, signed by all contributors, the artist and publisher, with an original signed …

  • [MAY GIBBS] We are the Gumnut Corps, We’re going to the War (We’ll make things hum, by gum!)

    # 44801

    GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

    [MAY GIBBS] We are the Gumnut Corps, We’re going to the War (We’ll make things hum, by gum!)

    [Melbourne: Osboldstone & Co., circa 1916]. Greeting card (139 x 90 mm), recto with colour process design of Gumnut Babies and printed May Gibbs signature, verso printed ‘The Gumnut Series-5’, fine condition.

  • Klippel / Klippel : Opus 2008

    # 44859

    LINDSAY, Frances

    Klippel / Klippel : Opus 2008

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Folio, silver cards  (light handling wear), lacking the wraparound band, unpaginated, extensively illustrated with images of Klippel sculptures. Essays by Frances Lindsay, Deborah Edwards, Todd Wagstaff.

  • Robert Klippel (hardcover)

    # 44858

    EDWARDS, Deborah

    Robert Klippel (hardcover)

    Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2002. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 265, heavily illustrated throughout in colour, contains foreword by Edmund Capon, text on Klippel’s life and work, essays on the art scene in Sydney throughout the 1940s, 1950s, 1970s-80s and the 1980s-90s, contains a photographic essay by Jenni Carter, biographical notes …

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

    # 44834

    Sydney Ure Smith

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

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1924. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, an excellent copy. Includes ‘The Proverbs of Goya and Blamire Young’ by Lionel Lindsay; ‘Faith, Love and, Death’ by Dowell O’Reilly; and an essay on Victorian war memorial …

  • Peregian Codex : James Gleeson.

    # 44657

    [GLEESON]. KLEPAC, Lou.

    Peregian Codex : James Gleeson.

    Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2008. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, 96 pp., fully illustrated with Gleeson’s vivid surreal imagery. The standard edition, printed in an edition of 500 copies. The Peregian Codex features the drawings that James Gleeson made while on holiday at Peregian Beach, Queensland, from December 1982 to January 1983. They were a …

  • William Dobell (signed copy)

    # 44607

    [DOBELL]. GLEESON, James.

    William Dobell (signed copy)

    London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. Quarto, cloth-bound boards in illustrated dustjacket (minor rubbing, price clipped), 208pp, 32 colour plates, 118 illustrations in monochrome. Signed in full on the title page by the author (and artist) James Gleeson and William Dobell.

  • Two panoramic costal views taken at Lorne, Victoria, circa 1920.

    # 44089

    JARRATT, A. E. (Albert Ellingworth) (1886-1962)

    Two panoramic costal views taken at Lorne, Victoria, circa 1920.

    Two gelatin silver print photographs taken with the same panoramic camera, in 90 x 250 mm format; laid down on original textured card mounts with photographer’s signature in pencil at lower right ‘A. E. Jarratt’; both prints and both mounts are in virtually pristine condition. Lorne resident A. E. Jarratt (1886-1962) was for many years …

  • The art of Ivor Hele (signed copy)

    # 44408

    HELE, Ivor

    The art of Ivor Hele (signed copy)

    With preface by Sir Will Ashton. Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1966. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dust jacket, spine sunned, short tear to upper panel); pp. 22, 83 plates (36 in colour). A very good copy signed by the artist on the endpaper. Scarce, especially signed.

  • Bill Henson Photographs 1974 - 1984 (signed copy)

    # 44343

    HENSON, Bill

    Bill Henson Photographs 1974 – 1984 (signed copy)

    Introduction by David Malouf. Sydney: Pan Books, 1988. Folio, boards in dustjacket (lightly rubbed), numerous folding photographic plates, previous owner’s name to pastedown. A fine copy, signed by the artist on the front free endpaper. Fine Henson photography from the 70s and 80s.

  • Mnemosyne

    # 44467

    HENSON, Bill.

    Mnemosyne

    Zurich : Scalo, 2005. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, 501 pp. A massive and extensively illustrated monograph on the famously controversial Melbourne photographer, published in conjunction with the artist’s major survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. A fine copy, with related Bill Henson ephemera enclosed.  

  • Heysen's early Hahndorf (signed copy)

    # 44409

    THIELE, Colin; HEYSEN, David

    Heysen’s early Hahndorf (signed copy)

    Illustrated with early works by Sir Hans Heysen, including drawings from his sketchbooks selected by David Heysen. Adelaide : Rigby, 1976. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 64, illustrated, signed on the title page by David Heysen.

  • Peregian Codex (deluxe edition)

    # 44209

    [GLEESON]. KLEPAC, Lou.

    Peregian Codex (deluxe edition)

    Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2008. Oblong quarto, orange cloth in matching slipcase, 96 pp., fully illustrated with Gleeson’s vivid surreal imagery. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies with a limitation slip signed by the artist, and an original aquatint etching loosely enclosed. The first 50 copies of this edition contain the aquatint Surge 2007 …

  • Mason Judy (deluxe edition)

    # 44123

    TODD, Trevor; JUNIPER, Robert

    Mason Judy (deluxe edition)

    Illustrated by Robert Juniper. Sydney : Methuen, 1977. Quarto, quarter leather over cloth, illustrated slipcase (sunned), pp. [74], faint light foxing, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by artist and author, this copy signed by both but out of series. “Mason Judy is lonely and unhappy when his family move to a …

  • The artist’s books of Robert Jacks

    # 44303

    ANDERSON, Peter.

    The artist’s books of Robert Jacks

    Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2009. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Detailed and scholarly catalogue on the artists books of Robert Jacks, spanning from the 1960s – 2000s

  • Dale Frank, Artist. Artworks 2006–2023

    # 44145

    NEWTON, Geoff (editor)

    Dale Frank, Artist. Artworks 2006–2023

    Melbourne : Neon Parc and Perimeter Editions, 2024. Folio, 370 x 275 mm, illustrated boards, pp. 408, extensively illustrated. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies. New copy. ‘Dale Frank’s paintings are an experiment in raw chemistry, time, and motion. Perhaps the most prolific, radical, and singular Australian artist of his generation, Frank’s work – …