Australian Artists L-P
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# 50461
NOLAN, Sidney and LYNN, Elwyn
Sidney Nolan – Australia (deluxe edition)
Sydney and London: Bay Books, 1979. Quarto, gilt-lettered calf with Nolan Kelly pictorial design in cloth slipcase (lightly marked) , 226pp. illustrated throughout, a fine copy The deluxe edition, limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Sidney Nolan.
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# 50447
TURNER, John
Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.
Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light edge wear, else a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett by New South Wales historian Dr. John Turner.
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# 50429
JAMES, Rodney
John Perceval : painting down the bay
Mornington : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2004. Quarto, lettered wrappers, sticker residue upper panel, pp. 20, illustrated.
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# 50425
EDWARDS, Deborah
Godfrey Miller 1893 – 1964
With contributions by John Henshaw and Ann Wookey. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1996. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 128, illustrated. A fine copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15th March – 5th May, 1996 and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15th …
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# 50419
TASCA, Margot
William Beckwith McInnes : an artist’s life
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd, 2022. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 232, illustrated. New copy. The artist William Beckwith McInnes was a paragon of early 20th century Australian art, and the seven-time winner of the renowned Archibald Prize. An Artist’s Life is the first time his full story is being told. Winner of …
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# 50418
TASCA, Margot
Percy Leason : an artist’s life
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2016. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 240, extensively illustrated. New copy. This finely illustrated, exhaustively researched and beautifully written biography on Leason features the artist’s entire career as a painter and cartoonist renowned for his depictions of Australian society in the 1920s and 1930s. ‘Who would have thought that a …
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# 50417
[LETI]. GRISHIN, Sasha
Bruno Leti (deluxe edition)
Six Memos on the art of Bruno Leti. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2002. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in matching slipcase, 184pp. illustrated with images of Leti’s contemporary graphics and artists’ books. This the de luxe edition of 50 copies, signed by the artist, with an original graphic Lines and Planes (I) signed by the artist loosely …
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# 50416
LETI, Bruno
Bruno Leti. The Carlton monotypes
Melbourne : the artist, 2015. Quarto, flushcut wrappers, spiral bound, unpaginated, foreword by the artist, plates. A book documenting a series of unique monotypes Leti made of the skyline of Carlton in 1989, with particular reference to the domed buildings which prompted recollections by Leti of the famous domes to be found in Italy and …
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# 50105
COX, Emma Busowsky
Daughters of the sun. Christian Waller & Klytie Pate (deluxe edition)
Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2018. Folio, gilt-lettered green cloth, pp. [iv]; 117, (3), fully illustrated, including fold out plates. Lavishly produced exhibition catalogue for the first major retrospective on the two Melbourne artists (aunt and niece) in several decades. Includes Waller’s magnificent art deco publications The great breath and The gates of dawn as well as the …
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# 49913
MELDRUM, Max
The science of appearances
as formulated and taught by Max Meldrum. Arranged and edited by Russell R. Foreman. Sydney : The Shepherd Press, 1950. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (edge worn with chips to head and foot of spine), light silver fishing to endpaper, pp. 79-80 neatly detached but present, tipped-in portrait frontispiece, pp. xvii; 298; extensively illustrated …
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# 50098
LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)
Santa Cruz, Toledo (1936) (original etching with accompanying booklet)
Etching, printed in brown ink, 25.2 x 17.6 cm (plate mark), 322 x 235 mm (paper), mounted at upper hinge to a backing card, old mount burn, light foxing, very good. Loosely enclosed, a contemporary printed caption announcing that the etching is printed exclusively for members of The Society of Print Connoisseurs, November 1946. Accompanied …
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![[SYDNEY] Bon Voyage to B. E. Minns. Saturday 23 February [1895], 6.30 p.m.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2878-300x300.jpg)
# 50198
[MINNS, B. E. (Benjamin Edwin), 1863-1937]
[SYDNEY] Bon Voyage to B. E. Minns. Saturday 23 February [1895], 6.30 p.m.
[Sydney : s.n., 1895]. Invitation card, 100 x 160 mm; lithograph printed recto only in sanguine ink on cream card; loss along the bottom edge, verso with residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated album of mounted printed ephemera compiled by J. G. O’Connor (1839-1913), Irish-born …
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# 50344
MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy
Paris (deluxe edition)
London : Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (a few light marks, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut; endpapers foxed; pp. xii, 185, illustrated with 75 colour plates, all with captioned tissue guards; occasional foxing, a very good copy of the edition de luxe, limited to 500 …
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# 49053
LINDSAY, Norman
Australian art exhibition of Norman Lindsay. May, 1937
Sydney: Macleod Gallery, 1937. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (a little dusty), 8pp., catalogue of 62 works, eight black and white illustrations, staples rusted, a few light pencil notes, a very good example. Rare.
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# 49675
MACKENZIE, Andrew
Frederick McCubbin 1855-1917: ‘The Proff’ and his art.
Melbourne: Mannagum Press, 1990. Folio, boards with colour illustrated dustjacket, slip case, 354pp, spine sunned, corners a little bumped. This is a monograph containing significant biographical and historical information on McCubbin, his family and the models in his artworks. There are numerous colour illustrations of his work. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the author. …
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# 50253
[NAMATJIRA]. HARDY, Jane, MEGAW, J.V.S., and MEGAW, M. Ruth
The Heritage of Namatjira : the watercolourists of Central Australia.
Melbourne : Heinemann, 1992. Large octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xxii; 350, illustrated in colour, an excellent copy. The primary reference work on the Hermannsburg school. A quality copy of a title which is out of print and quite scarce.