Australian Artists L-P

# 51596

MAYNARD, John

True light and shade : an Aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett’s art

Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. Out of print, a fine copy. ‘True light and shade’ is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they …

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# 49329

PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)

Margaret Preston Recent Paintings 1929

The most sought after of all Margaret Preston books, with a magnificent signed colour woodcut. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1929. Quarto, folding white buckram clamshell box with gilt-lettered title label (edges and joints restored), original ribbon ties, containing the following elements: 1. A black card folio, inside which is a copy of the publication …

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# 51311

BERTIE, Charles H.

[MARGARET PRESTON] Sydney streets

Sydney : Art in Australia Ltd., 1928. Octavo, orange card covers, with a Preston woodcut reproduced on the front panel (a couple of small stains), title page reproducing Margaret Preston woodcut of St. Philip’s Church, [10] pp text, [10] leaves with tipped-in sepia-tone plates of Harold Cazneaux photographs, etchings by E. Warner and J.C. Goodchild, …

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# 51215

DEAMER, Dulcie (1890 - 1972)

The Silver Branch

Twenty-seven poems by Dulcie Deamer. Dover Heights (Sydney) : Swinburne Press, 1948. Octavo, quarter cloth over lettered boards, Norman Lindsay illustrated dustjacket (lightly marked and edge worn), slight split to upper hinge, frontispiece illustration by Rosaleen Norton, pp. 89; colophon, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Dulcie Deamer. Very scarce. ‘Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie …

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# 50806

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

War impressions (deluxe edition, copy number 1, with original signed watercolour)

Being a record in colour by Mortimer Menpes. Transcribed by Dorothy Menpes. London : Adam & Charles Black, 1901. Quarto, in a fine signed binding by Bickers of London of full levant morocco, elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and tooling, edges slightly rubbed, morocco turn-ins with …

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# 51238

ASHTON, Julian & Howard; LINDSAY, Norman & LONGSTAFF, John

[FEDERATION] Commonwealth Celebrations. Souvenir invitation cards. Victoria. May 1901.

[Cover title]. [Melbourne : s.n., 1901]. Oblong folio (295 x 395 mm), original red pebbled cloth over boards (scattered light staining) with ornamental gilt borders, upper board lettered in gilt; original silk endpapers, first blank with a gift inscription in ink ‘To Willis from Father, as a present for his 21st Birthday. Canterbury, August 1901’; …

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# 51511

[MILLER]. HENSHAW, John. (ed.)

Godfrey Miller (signed presentation copy)

Sydney: Darlinghurst Galleries, distributed by Ure Smith, 1966. Quarto, boards with illustrated dustjacket, 16 colour plates, 110 illustrations in monochrome, a forward by Peter Bellew and an article and writings by the artist. A substantial reference on Godfrey Miller (1893 – 1964), edges lightly rubbed, but a fine copy. This copy with a signed presentation …

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# 51502

HURST, Cameron and Jeremy GEORGE (editors)

Venus in Tullamarine : art, sex, politics and Norman Lindsay

/ with contributions from Ian McLean, Adrain Martin, Cameron Hurst, Jeremy George, James Nguyen, Soo-Min Shim. [Cover title]. Small octavo (175 x 105 mm), illustrated wrappers, pp. 152; an as-new copy. ‘Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) was a prolific, popular, and controversial Australian artist. He is best known for his children’s book The Magic Pudding (1918) and …

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# 51492

LINDSAY, Jack

Faces and places. With drawings by Norman Lindsay

Toronto : Basilike, 1974. Octavo, quarter cloth with lettered label on spine over marbled papered boards, Norman Lindsay illustrations. Limited to 350 copies.

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# 51459

LINDSAY, Norman; BLUNDEN, Geoffrey

Norman Lindsay watercolours

: fifteen reproductions in colour from original watercolours with an appreciation of the medium / by Norman Lindsay and a survey of the artist’s life and work by Godfrey Blunden. Sydney : Ure Smith, 1973. Quarto, blue cloth boards with pictorial dustjacket, 63 pp, 15 colour plates. A fine copy. Originally published under the title …

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# 51429

REILLY, Dianne; HAMMOND, Victoria

Charles Joseph La Trobe : landscapes and sketches

Introduced by Dianne Reilly ; notes by Victoria Hammond. Melbourne : State Library of Victoria in association with Tarcoola Press and National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1999. Quarto, gilt-lettered faux morocco in matching slipcase, a few small marks, pp. xviii, 341, extensively illustrated in colour. Limited to 500 numbered copies, a very good copy on …

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# 51443

NAPANGARDI, Dorothy (1956 - 2013)

Dancing up country : the art of Dorothy Napangardi

Sydney : Museum Of Contemporary Art, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 88, illustrated, a mint copy, scarce as such. ‘Dancing up country: the art of Dorothy Napangardi presented a selection of paintings focusing on Dorothy Napangardi’s career from 1991 to 2002. These paintings were based around the Women’s Dreaming, sometimes known as Digging Sticks Dreaming, …

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# 51358

TAPPER, Nick (editor)

Ngarra : the texta drawings

Edited and introduced by Nick Tapper with contributions by Henry F. Skerritt and Kevin Shaw. Subiaco, W.A. : Mossenson Art Foundation, 2015 (2018 reprint). Quarto, illustrated wrappers in dustjacket, pp. 175, illustrated. New copy. ‘ A mesmerising collection of texta drawings by one of remote Australia’s most significant artists. Ngarra was the senior lawman for …

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# 51433

LISTER, Anthony (1979 - )

[Sketchbook]

[Melbourne : Black Art Projects, 2013]. Oblong octavo (145 x 213 mm) black cloth bound boards, pp. [192], reproducing drawings from Anthony Lister’s sketchbooks from 2002 – 2012. Brisbane-born street artist Anthony Lister quickly shot to fame in the mid-2000s as a leading force in a new group of contemporary art-makers working outside the traditional …

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# 51349

CRAMER, Sue; BUTLER, Roger et al.

John Nixon. Four decades, five hundred prints

Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2023. Quarto, illustrated cards in dustjacket, pp. 224, illustrated. ‘ Printmaking was a vital part of artist John Nixon’s celebrated oeuvre of abstract art. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same name at Geelong Gallery and reveals Nixon’s inventive use of varied techniques, which ranged from simple woodcuts and potato …

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# 51328

NAMATJIRA, Albert (1902-1959)

Albert Namatjira : souvenir portfolio : six watercolours painted in Central Australia by foremost Australian Aboriginal artist.

Artarmon, N.S.W. : Legend Press, [circa 1960s]. Publisher’s illustrated envelope (edges rubbed), 185 x 235 mm, housing six colour reproductions of paintings by Namatjira, each 175 x 225 mm (sheet size), plus a seventh sheet with biographical information and b/w photographic portrait of the artist. Scarce. There are six variations to this Souvenir Portfolio, each with …

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