Australian Artists L-P

  • Paradise Garden. Paintings, drawings and poems (deluxe edition, with original drawing)

    # 45466

    NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)

    Paradise Garden. Paintings, drawings and poems (deluxe edition, with original drawing)

    With an introduction by Robert Melville. London: R Alistair McAlpine, 1971. Quarto, 110pp. comprised of poems by Sidney Nolan accompanied by full page plates with colour crayon acetate overlays. The rarest deluxe edition, in a batik cloth binding, signed by the artist, with an original signed drawing bound in. A total of 3000 copies were …

  • Adventure in watercolour (deluxe edition)

    # 45478

    MACQUEEN, Kenneth

    Adventure in watercolour (deluxe edition)

    An artist’s story. With a letter from Professor J. V. Duhig, biographical summary by Vida Lahey also an explanation of technique by the artist himself. Sydney : The Legend Press, n.d. [c. 1947]. Quarto, gilt-illustrated jade morocco (spine lightly sunned), acetate jacket, top edge gilt, tipped-in colour plates, housed in original publisher’s slipcase (a couple …

  • Paradise Garden. Paintings, drawings and poems with an introduction by Robert Melville (deluxe edition)

    # 45730

    NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)

    Paradise Garden. Paintings, drawings and poems with an introduction by Robert Melville (deluxe edition)

    London: R Alistair McAlpine, 1971. Quarto, 110pp. consisting of poems by Sidney Nolan accompanied by full page plates with colour crayon acetate overlays. The de luxe edition, in a suede binding, signed by the artist. A total of 3000 copies were produced, 2890 standard editions (cloth bound with dustjacket), plus, according to the colophon, 110 …

  • Dennis Nona : Malu sara

    # 45586

    NONA, Dennis

    Dennis Nona : Malu sara

    Brisbane : Andrew Baker Art Dealer Pty Ltd, 2011. Exhibition catalogue. Square quarto (210 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers, 50 pp., colour illustrations; an excellent copy.

  • Identities : a critical study of the work of Mike Parr 1970-1990 (signed copy)

    # 45522

    BROMFIELD, David

    Identities : a critical study of the work of Mike Parr 1970-1990 (signed copy)

    Perth : University Of Western Australia Press, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii, 339, illustrated. Signed by the artist on the first leaf and dated 1991, the year of publication.

  • Mental as anything art show

    # 45321

    MENTAL AS ANYTHING

    Mental as anything art show

    Melbourne : Westpac Gallery, circa 1990? Exhibition catalogue, single sheet, folded, black and white illustrations, text by Reg Mombassa, catalogue of works with prices by Wayne Delisle, Reg Mombassa, Peter O’Doherty, Martin Plaza and Greedy Smith, Scarce catalogue from the Australian new wave and pop rock band that formed in Sydney in 1976.

  • John Olsen. Selected graphics

    # 45700

    OLSEN, John

    John Olsen. Selected graphics

    Perth : Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1983. Oblong quarto, wrappers (sticker label mark upper wrapper, not visible in the stock photo, pp. 31, illustrated.  

  • The prints of Margaret Preston. A catalogue raisonné (revised and enlarged edition) - paperback edition

    # 45761

    BUTLER, Roger

    The prints of Margaret Preston. A catalogue raisonné (revised and enlarged edition) – paperback edition

    Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 2005. Quarto, pictorial laminated wrappers, pp. 373, fully illustrated. The essential reference on one of Australia’s most renowned artists.

  • Clifton Pugh. Drought and flood in Australia (signed copy)

    # 45681

    PUGH, Clifton (1924 - 1990)

    Clifton Pugh. Drought and flood in Australia (signed copy)

    Melbourne : Gallery 499, 1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a little rubbed and creased), pp. 76, illustrated. Signed by the artist.

  • Sir Lionel Lindsay Etchings and Drypoints

    # 45678

    LINDSAY, Lionel

    Sir Lionel Lindsay Etchings and Drypoints

    Sydney : Ure Smith, 1949. Octavo, papered boards ( a little rubbed), bookplate to pastedown, pp. 48, essays by Harold Wright and Lionel Lindsay, reproductions of his etchings.

  • Sidney Nolan

    # 45677

    ROSENTHAL, T. G.

    Sidney Nolan

    London : Thames & Hudson, 2002. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 304, extensively illustrated, some fold out plates, a very good copy.

  • Sidney Nolan - Australia

    # 45676

    NOLAN, Sidney (1917-1992); LYNN, Elwyn

    Sidney Nolan – Australia

    Sydney and London : Bay Books, 1979. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth with Nolan Kelly pictorial design, dustjacket, 226 pp, illustrated throughout, foxing to endpapers and preliminaries.

  • 40 Drawings by Godfrey Miller

    # 45675

    [MILLER, Godfrey].

    40 Drawings by Godfrey Miller

    Foreword by John Henshaw. Sydney: Edwards & Shaw, 1962. Quarto, apricot boards, lightly marked, 40 black and white plates. A very good copy. Scarce.

  • [Sketchbook]

    # 45667

    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 …

  • Dancing up country : the art of Dorothy Napangardi

    # 45666

    NAPANGARDI, Dorothy (1956 - 2013)

    Dancing up country : the art of Dorothy Napangardi

    Sydney : Museum Of Contemporary Art, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 88, illustrated, light handling marks. Scarce. ‘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, passed down …

  • Sidney Nolan

    # 45661

    PEARCE, Barry

    Sidney Nolan

    With an introduction by Edmund Capon and contributions by Frances Lindsay and Lou Klepac. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 272, illustrated. New copy, still sealed in publisher’s shinkwrap. “This catalogue documents the first major Nolan retrospective since the artist’s death in London in 1992. Given the …