Australian Artists L-P
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# 46345
PIGOT, John
Hilda Rix Nicholas : her life and art
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2000. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. xiv; 95, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Scarce. A fine copy.
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# 46344
HUMPHRIES, Barry, SAYERS, Andrew and ENGLEDOW, Sarah
The world of Thea Proctor
Canberra : Craftsman House, 2005. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 185, faint edge foxing, extensively illustrated. A substantial monograph on the modernist artist.
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# 46295
NEVILLE, Richard
Mr J W Lewin : painter & naturalist
Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling wear, spine sunned), pp. 272, illustrated; internally very clean, a good copy. Author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia – Birds of New South Wales, in 1813. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Mr …
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# 46167
LETI, Bruno
The Matrix (deluxe edition)
Bruno Leti : the matrix : remembering Giorgio Morandi : equilibrium and strength. Melbourne : Macmillan and the State Library of Victoria, 2010. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, 128 pp., extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 20 copies, with an original signed etching, presented in a clamshell box. In printmaking, the artform along with painting, …
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# 46195
MINNS, B. E. (Benjamin Edward) (1863-1937) (artist)
Grand Military Tattoo. Tendered to the Admiral Commanding and Personnel of the visiting United States Battle Fleet, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Ground, Sydney, New South Wales. Thursday July 30th at 8pm, 1925.
[Drop title]. Sydney : The Motor Press Ltd., 1925. Octavo (225 mm), colour pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper design signed in the image lower right ‘B. E. Minns’ and incorporating symbols of the United States of America and Australia, including the flags of both nations, the kangaroo and emu, and the New South Wales waratah; …
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# 46255
PLANT, Margaret
John Perceval
Melbourne : Lansdowne Australian Art Library, 1971. First edition. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dust jacket; lightly sunned at spine, 112 pp. with numerous tipped in colour plates; a fine copy.
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# 46251
MURCH, Ria
Arthur Murch: An artist’s life 1902 – 1989
Sydney : Ruskin Rowe Press, 1997. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, 158pp. Monograph featuring full page colour images with foreward by Peter Pinson and introduction by Barry Pearce. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the title page.
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# 46244
BUTLER, Roger
The prints of Margaret Preston. A catalogue raisonne (hardcover)
Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1987. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 337 fully illustrated, a fine copy. The first edition, less common hardback issue.
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# 46166
[MILLER]. HENSHAW, John. (ed.)
Godfrey Miller.
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 Miller, a fine copy.
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# 46165
LETI, Bruno
Bruno Leti “Four Days” : a folio of four lithographs
Melbourne : the artist, 1991. Folio, silkscreened lettered wrappers by Larry Rawling, containing four colour lithographs made in collaboration with Neil Leveson at the Australian Print Workshop, each signed in pencil. The folio limited to 35 copies signed by the artist. Two copies recorded in Australian collections (SLV, NGA).
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# 46164
LETI, Bruno
Bruno Leti. Return to Memories (series 1). A folio of three woodcuts.
Melbourne : the artist, 1989. Folio, silkscreened wrappers by Larry Rawling, containing three original colour woodcuts (Sabina, Clonbinane, Arrival 51), each signed and numbered by the artist. Edition limited to 30 copies. A single example recorded in Australian collections (SLV).
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# 46163
LETI, Bruno
Bruno Leti. Market forces
Melbourne : the artist, 1991. Folio, folding card portfolio with original signed and numbered screenprint on front panel, containing four signed and numbered sugar lift etchings and four cibachrome prints, the folio also signed and numbered and limited to 35 copies. Leti’s visual response to the Queen Victoria Market. A single copy recorded in Australian …
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# 46157
PERCEVAL, John
John Perceval Drawings 1940 – 1950
Melbourne : Tolarno Galleries, 1977. Octavo, folded glossy card (light marks), text by Georges Mora, 5 small black and white illustrations.
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# 46133
[PURVES SMITH]. EAGLE, Mary.
Peter Purves Smith. A painter in peace and war.
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, 192pp., plates. Light handling marks, a very good copy. Peter Purves Smith in the early 1940s was considered one of Australia’s three most promising young artists (the others were his friend Russell Drysdale and the Sydney painter William Dobell). But Purves Smith died in 1949, too …
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# 46074
HOFF, Jennifer
Tiwi graveposts
[Melbourne] : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated. Tiwi artist Janet Mungatopi is photographed painting motifs on graveposts based on designs that she saw her grandfather paint for funeral ceremonies when she was a small girl.
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# 46047
COSSEY, David; NICHOLLS, Christine
Paintings by Kathleen Petyarre
Adelaide : Gallerie Australis, 1999. Catalogue. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), stapled wrappers (lightly rubbed), 17 pp, colour illustrated, with essays by David Cossey and Christine Nicholls; a good copy.