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  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fifty-One

    # 32272

    Sydney Ure Smith.

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fifty-One

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1933. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, 58pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a fine copy. Features essays on Arthur Murch, Edmund harvey, Maud Sherwood, Eric Thake and John Ford Paterson  as well as colour and black and white plates of …

  • Mark Schaller : Botanicus fantasticus (signed copy)

    # 31929

    SCHALLER, Mark

    Mark Schaller : Botanicus fantasticus (signed copy)

    Melbourne : Fox Galleries, 2020. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with wraparound band, pp. 64, illustrated. Foreword by Helen Hughes, essay by Rebecca Agnew. Signed by the artist on the title page. The first volume in the Modern Seasons series of publications. Modern Seasons is a publication series presenting a portrait of the four seasons. The four-part publication …

  • James Tunks : into dust

    # 31713

    TUNKS, James

    James Tunks : into dust

    Melbourne : Perimeter Editions, 2017. Quarto, lettered cloth wrappers, pp. [44], illustrated. Edition of 300 copies. Photography represents a mode of conceptual, material and historical enquiry for Melbourne-born, Frankfurt-based artist James Tunks. An expansion from his 2017 solo exhibition Elsewhere at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne), his debut book Into Dust sees Tunks construct …

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Twenty.

    # 31389

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Twenty.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1927. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, 88pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, an extremely fine copy. Includes various essays and literary pieces; and an essay by Margaret Preston entitled ‘Colour;. Illustrations by Streeton, Young, Leist, Feint, Will Ashton, Fizelle, et …

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Twenty.

    # 31386

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Twenty.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1927. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, 88pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, edges a little rubbed. Includes various essays and literary pieces; and an essay by Margaret Preston entitled ‘Colour;. Illustrations by Streeton, Young, Leist, Feint, Will Ashton, Fizelle, et …

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Forty-Seven. B.E. Minns Number

    # 31385

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Forty-Seven. B.E. Minns Number

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1932. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, 70pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, faint foxing to preliminaries, contemporary inscription to endpaper, else a fine copy. Features essay by Julian Ashton on the artist on the Future of the Theatre, and an …

  • Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs

    # 31256

    KOLENBERG, Hendrik

    Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs

    A catalogue raisonne by Hendrik Kolenberg with an introduction by Lou Klepac. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1986. Quarto, gilt-lettered black calf finely bound with matching slipcase, 112 pp, illustrated throughout. This one of 100 copies of the special collectors’ edition, signed by the artist with an original signed Lloyd Rees lithograph loosely enclosed (light …

  • Ginger Riley : the boss of colour

    # 31193

    RILEY, Ginger (1936 - 2002)

    Ginger Riley : the boss of colour

    Castlemaine, Vic. : Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, [2015]. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp.  [50], illustrated. New copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Society 15 January – 8 March, 2015. ‘Castlemaine Art Gallery is proud and privileged to present the exhibition, ‘Ginger Riley: The Boss of Colour’. This …

  • Royal Art Society of New South Wales. Memorandum and Articles of Association and by-laws. Revised July, 1904. (Dora Toovey's copy, with related ephemera)

    # 30817

    ROYAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES [TOOVEY, Dora, 1898-1986]

    Royal Art Society of New South Wales. Memorandum and Articles of Association and by-laws. Revised July, 1904. (Dora Toovey’s copy, with related ephemera)

    Sydney : W. C. Penfold, 1904. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original wrappers printed in blue (upper wrapper with 1930s ownership signature of Dora Toovey, Society member, and her annotation ‘original RAS‘, both in blue fountain pen; light creasing), staple bound; pp [8], 24; the title page is further inscribed by Toovey ‘Dora Toovey, FRAS, rep. portraits …

  • Tom Roberts exhibition National Gallery of Victoria February - March, 1948. Souvenir catalogue

    # 31118

    [ROBERTS, Tom]

    Tom Roberts exhibition National Gallery of Victoria February – March, 1948. Souvenir catalogue

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1948. Quarto, decorative green white striped wrappers, pp 28, essay on Roberts by Lionel Lindsay, chronological table of Robert’s life events 1856-1903, catalogue of the exhibition of 82 works, three black and white plates reproducing Roberts’ paintings and a photographic portrait of the artist; contents clean; a very good …

  • Albert Tucker. Paintings 1945 – 1960

    # 31114

    TUCKER, Albert

    Albert Tucker. Paintings 1945 – 1960

    Melbourne: Tolarno Galleries, 1982. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers with acetate cover, 72pp., colour plates throughout.

  • Albert Tucker

    # 31112

    [TUCKER, Albert]

    Albert Tucker

    Sydney: Bonython Art Gallery, 1969. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, 8pp., catalogue of 158 works, black and white illustrations, very good copy.

  • Reinis Zusters : Australian artist editions. (Inscribed by the artist, with a drawing)

    # 31109

    ZUSTERS, Reinis; REES, Lloyd

    Reinis Zusters : Australian artist editions. (Inscribed by the artist, with a drawing)

    Sydney : Collins Australian Artist Editions, [c.1972]. Square octavo, pictorial wrappers, signed and inscribed on half title by Zusters with a pen drawing. Colour illustrations with one folding plate.

  • Art in Australia. Art and Architecture. Third Series, Number Seventy-Nine.

    # 30951

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. Art and Architecture. Third Series, Number Seventy-Nine.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : John Fairfax and Sons, 1940. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (defective, tear to upper wrapper and lacking the lower wrapper), 100pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a good copy only. Features articles on training infant artists, Elioth Gruner, and the provinicial galleries of …

  • Christmas card from Dora Toovey

    # 30804

    TOOVEY, Dora (1898 - 1986)

    Christmas card from Dora Toovey

    Duodecimo, folding card, with tipped-on image ‘Black Madonna’ by Dora Toovey, dates circa 1950, fine condition. The cover image is of an Australian Aboriginal woman and child from the Aranda tribe painted near Ayers Rock in Central Australia. Provenance : the estate of the late Dora Toovey (1898 – 1986), Archibald finalist painter and wife …

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number One.

    # 30534

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number One.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1921. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (sunning on spine), unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, an excellent copy. Includes essay by Norman Lindsay titled ‘The Quick and the Dead’; essay by Hugh McCrae titled ‘The Dawamesk’. Illustrations by Thea Proctor, …