Australian Artists L-P
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# 50869
COTTE, Sabine
Mirka Mora : a life making art
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2019. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 268, illustrated. New copy. Mirka Mora features a rich insight into the intellectual life and art practice of one of Australia’s most versatile, creative and prolific modern artists. A Melbourne cultural icon, Mirka, along with her ex-husband Georges, was instrumental in helping to …
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# 50853
HUTCHINGS, P. Ae. and LEWIS, Julie
Kathleen O’Connor : artist in exile
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987. Octavo, stiff wrappers, illustrated dustjacket, pp. 326, illustrated, a very good copy of this monograph on the West Australian modernist painter.
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# 50848
REID, Barrett
Of dark and light. The art of John Perceval
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1992. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, light wave to text block, illustrated.
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# 50843
BEIER, Ulli; COX, Paul; MORA, Mirka
Mirka (signed presentation copy)
Text by Ulli Beier, photographs by Paul Cox. Melbourne : Macmillan, 1980. First edition. Oblong quarto, buckram boards with title in blind, in pictorial dust jacket, pp 84; slight wave to text block, else a fine copy. Signed and inscribed by the author Ulli Beier to art historian and publisher Jenny Zimmer on the endpaper …
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# 50839
OLSEN, John, McGREGOR, Ken; ZIMMER, Jenny
John Olsen. Journeys into the ‘You beaut country’. (Revised edition)
Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 2016 (first published by Macmillan, 2007). Quarto, illustrated boards lettered in gold, pp. 344, illustrated. An extensive journey of Olsen’s artistic relationship with the Australian landscape. A fine copy, as new, of an elusive title. ‘This volume, companion to Teeming With Life (2005), which contained this artist’s complete printmaking oeuvre …
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# 50820
PALMER, Maudie; LITTLEY, Samantha
Danie Mellor : exotic lies sacred ties
Brisbane : University of Queensland Art Museum, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy. Book to accompany the exhibition. ‘This major survey will focus on the past decade of the artist’s practice. Mellor’s Indigenous heritage informs his art, which considers Australia’s colonial legacy. Born at Mackay, Queensland, in 1971 he maintains …
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# 50808
OLSEN, John (1928 - 2023)
John Olsen. Drawing – the human touch
With an interview by Ken McGregor. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 352, extensively illustrated. Out of print, an as-new copy. This richly illustrated publication represents the author’s attempt to locate as many of John Olsen’s drawings as possible and Macmillan’s determination to reproduce them in a book which will serve as a …
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# 50807
OLSEN, John (1928 - 2023)
John Olsen. My complete graphics 1957 – 1979 (deluxe edition with original signed etching)
Introduction by Lou Klepac. Melbourne: Australian Galleries and Gryphon Books, 1980. Folio, gilt-decorated full calf in illustrated dustjacket, 248pp., illustrated throughout, with an original signed John Olsen etching ‘Owl & train’ tipped in at rear. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by Olsen with an original etching. This is copy number 41. My …
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# 50786
DEL'MACE, Jill [DEL-MACE, Gill], 1947 - 2024
Magic Realism : A Collection of Works by Jill Del’Mace
[Melbourne] : Export Australia, 1989. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, colour plates, biography, gallery label for Delshan Gallery, of which Del-Mace was a co-owner. Scarce catalogue of the late Jill Del’Mace’s haunting realist images with full page colour plates and accompanying prose. Later in her career, the artist returned to the original spelling of her name Gill …
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# 50766
GRAY, Anna
George W. Lambert retrospective. Heroes & icons
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (crease to lower wrapper), pp. 212, illustrated.
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# 50765
GRAY, Anna
McCubbin. Last impressions 1907 – 1917
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2009. Quarto, illustrated card boards, pp. 168, illustrated.
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# 50764
MAGUIRE, Tim
Tim Maguire
Sydney : Piper Press, 2007. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 252, illustrated throughout.
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# 50743
NEWTON, Helmut
Helmut Newton “One Off”
Berlin : Phaidon Press, 2026. Folio, lettered cloth, exposed stitching (as issued), pp. 144, illustrated. A very good copy. A stunning reproduction of a unique album of Helmut Newton’s iconic photographs including many previously unseen images ‘A stunning reproduction of a unique album of Helmut Newton’s iconic photographs, including many previously unseen images German-Australian photographer …
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# 50738
OLSEN, John (1928 - )
John Olsen “The Kiss”
Townsville and Melbourne : Lyre Bird Press & Zimmer Editions, 2009. Folio, quarter-calf over linen, gilt-lettered on spine, unpaginated, original signed Olsen etching bound in as frontispiece, titled ‘The Kiss’ and editioned out of 30 copies, an original Olsen pen sketch of a lyre bird facing title page with the edition number written by the …
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# 50735
McGREGOR, Ken
James Drinkwater : encrusting the marvellous heart (signed copy)
Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2016. Folio, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 173, illustrated. Designed by Jenny Zimmer. Printed in a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the artist and author. Scarce.
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# 50723
McPHEE, John (ed.)
Joseph Lycett : convict artist
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dust jacket (lightly sunned), pp. 285, illustrated in colour throughout, academic text on the artist by John McPhee, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Shane Frost and Martin Terry. A richly illustrated monograph on the convict artist Joseph Lycett published on the …