Australian Artists Q-Z

  • Brett Whiteley (deluxe signed edition)

    # 50460

    [WHITELEY, Brett]. MCGRATH, Sandra

    Brett Whiteley (deluxe signed edition)

    Sydney : Bay Books, 1979. Quarto, full leather with gilt embossed signature in slipcase (lightly marked), pp. 232 fully illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 200 copies signed by the artist Brett Whiteley, presented in a special deluxe binding (this is copy 45), pale foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy of a rare edition. …

  • Danila Vassilieff (1898 - 1958)

    # 50428

    VASSILIEFF, Danila

    Danila Vassilieff (1898 – 1958)

    Sydney : Macquarie Galleries, 1973. Octavo, folded sheet (lightly foxed), cover illustration, pp. 4, catalogue of 33 works with prices, biography, a very good copy.

  • Jeffrey Smart. Unpublished Paintings 1940 - 2007 (signed copy for Peter Churcher)

    # 50415

    [SMART]. ALLEN, Christopher

    Jeffrey Smart. Unpublished Paintings 1940 – 2007 (signed copy for Peter Churcher)

    Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 285, extensively illustrated. This copy signed on the half title by the artist ‘For Peter, a fond friend & beautiful painter. As ever, Jeffrey Smart’. A meaningful inscription from one major Australian artist to another.

  • Daughters of the sun. Christian Waller & Klytie Pate (deluxe edition)

    # 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 …

  • Accent & Hazard (copy A - the artist's own copy)

    # 50335

    STRACHAN, David (artist); KERSHAW, Alister (text)

    Accent & Hazard (copy A – the artist’s own copy)

    Paris : printed by Jacques Murray at the Stramur-presse, 1951. Small folio, colour printed paper portfolio (short split to one corner)in original card slipcase (slightly scuffed), housing ten sections containing Kershaw’s poems, etched from the manuscript by Murray, illustrated by eight large full page, double page or folding etchings and aquatints by David Strachan complemented …

  • Violet Teague

    # 50326

    CLARK, Jane and DRUCE, Felicity

    Violet Teague

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 128, published in conjunction with the Violet Teague retrospective exhibition (1999), foreword by Professor Jaynie Anderson, contains 52 colour and black & white plates of Teague’s works, introduction by Jane Clark, essays by Felicity Druce, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Anita Callaway, Kay …

  • John Wolseley. Travelling west to Sunset Tank

    # 50305

    WOLSELEY, John

    John Wolseley. Travelling west to Sunset Tank

    Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, quarto, folded card, pp. [6], illustrated.

  • Robert Rooney : the Kovalevsky paintings

    # 50307

    ADAM, Rosemary

    Robert Rooney : the Kovalevsky paintings

    Melbourne : Tolarno Galleries, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated. Invite and price list enclosed.

  • Ań archive of publications and artworks on Polish-Australian Jewish artist Felix Tuszynski

    # 50309

    TUSZYNSKI, Felix (1922 - 2016)

    Ań archive of publications and artworks on Polish-Australian Jewish artist Felix Tuszynski

    The Australian artist Felix Tuszynski (1922 – 2016) was a Polish holocaust survivor and brother to French miniature artist Devi Tuszynski. His fantastic and surrealist images are forged from memories of his family as well as time spend in the Auschwitz concentration camp. ZAREMBA, Tadeusz. The art of Felix Tuszynski. Płock : The Mazovian Museum, …

  • From an evolutionary point of view? A series of occasional drawings by Klaus Rudolf Zimmer (standard edition)

    # 50300

    ZIMMER, Jenny (editor)

    From an evolutionary point of view? A series of occasional drawings by Klaus Rudolf Zimmer (standard edition)

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing and Zimmer Editions, 2021. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 184, illustrated. The standard edition. New copy. ‘How did this book of unusual drawings, arranged in a hypothetically evolutionary cycle, come about? With a Berlin Diploma of Graphic Art, a successful audition for the Berlin Staatsoper and extensive adventures in the South …

  • Hugh Ramsay 1877 - 1906

    # 50279

    FULLERTON, Patricia and SMITH, Bernard

    Hugh Ramsay 1877 – 1906

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1992. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 82, extensively illustrated.

  • Vassilieff and his art.

    # 50264

    [VASSILIEFF]. ST JOHN MOORE, Felicity.

    Vassilieff and his art.

    Melbourne: Macmillan, 2012. (First published 1982). Quarto, gatefold wrappers, 232 pp., illustrated. Mint copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap.  

  • Oliffe Richmond 1919 - 1977. Sculptures and works on paper

    # 50252

    RICHMOND, Oliffe

    Oliffe Richmond 1919 – 1977. Sculptures and works on paper

    Sydney : Watters Gallery, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [20], illustrated. Price list enclosed.

  • Brett Whiteley : the graphics 1961-1992

    # 50249

    WHITELEY, Brett (1939-1992)

    Brett Whiteley : the graphics 1961-1992

    Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1995. Small folio, illustrated cards, 120 pp, fully illustrated in colour and black and white, light handling marks to wrappers, a fine copy. A catalogue raisonne of Whiteley’s graphic output. 1000 copies were printed, of which (according to information provided by Chris Deutscher) approximately 400 were accidentally destroyed while in …

  • The art of Christian Waller

    # 50108

    [WALLER, Christian]. THOMAS, David

    The art of Christian Waller

    Bendigo, Vic. : Bendigo Art Gallery : 1992. Folio, illustrated wrappers, 70 pp. illustrated. A comprehensive exhibition catalogue on the noted art deco artist. A fine copy.

  • Night fall in the ti-tree (facsimile edition)

    # 50107

    TEAGUE, Violet

    Night fall in the ti-tree (facsimile edition)

    Woodcuts by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague. [Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, c. 2005]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, cloth spine, unpaginated, french folds in the style of the original publication from 1905. Fine copy. ‘In 1905 Violet Teague, in collaboration with her friend Geraldine Rede, handprinted Night Fall in the Ti-Tree at the Sign of …