Australian Women Artists
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# 46790
TOMESCU, Aida
Aida Tomescu : Milky Way
Sydney : Liverpool Street Gallery, 2012. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated.
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# 46789
TOMESCU, Aida
Aida Tomescu : Ravel
Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 66, colour illustrations throughout. Essay by Barry Pearce.
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# 46788
TOMESCU, Aida
Aida Tomescu
Sydney : Martin Browne Fine Art, 2004. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue from exhibition running 12 October – 7 November 2004.
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# 46671
JORDAN, Caroline
Picturesque pursuits : colonial women artists & the amateur tradition
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2005. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. 224, illustrated. Australian colonial women artists produced a rich ouevre of paintings, drawings and craftworks of the highest quality. In this cultural history, Caroline Jordan explores the work of Georgiana McCrae, Fanny Macleay, Elizabeth Gould, Louisa Anne Meredith and …
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# 46628
BUTLER, Roger.
Australian prints in the Australian National Gallery
Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Margaret Preston, pp. 56, illustrated with images by Lewin, Rodius, Gillray, von Guerard, Roberts, Lindsay, Conder, Bunny, Trail, Preston, Spowers, Waller, Brack, Williams, Boyd, etc.
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# 46613
BECKETT, Clarice.
Clarice Beckett. Politically Incorrect.
Melbourne: Ian Potter Museum of Art, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (spine sunned, as commonly found), 76pp., staple impression to a few early leaves, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies, now scarce. Text by Rosalind Hollinrake.
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# 46568
GIBBS, May (1877-1969)
Bib and Bub : their adventures.
Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto (240 x 210 mm), publisher’s blue cloth decorated in black (boards discoloured and very slightly warped), pictorial endpapers (front endpaper with off-setting), half-title, title, pp. 79, (1), colour panelled (i.e. comic strip format) illustrations throughout; contents with occasional toning and scattered foxing (more pronounced on preliminaries and last …
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# 46529
KOORIVISION INC.; DEACON, Destiny et al.
KooriVision Inc presents Kitch’en Koori. Art works, a kitchen, words, and an Oz kitsch dis-play. Fringe Studio, 1st Floor 184 Brunswick Street Fitzroy, 2-19 September 1992.
[Melbourne] : KooriVision Inc., 1992. Exhibition flyer/invitation. A4 sheet folded to form [4] sides (last side is blank), illustrated; very good condition; loosely inserted is a 2-page essay on the significance of the kitsch Aboriginalia display by Kylie Belling and Johnny Harding. This exhibition was part of the 1992 Melbourne Fringe Festival. It included a …
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# 46498
McCORMICK, Alice; RHODES, Sarah
The artist’s lunch : at home with Australia’s most celebrated artists
Text : Alice McCormick; photography : Sarah Rhodes. Foreword by Margaret Olley. Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly marked), pp. 231, illustrated. A fine copy. “Join photographer Sarah Rhodes and writer Alice McCormick as they meet up for lunch with 18 of Australias most lauded artists. From beans on toast with …
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# 38842
PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)
Sturt’s Desert Pea, 1925
Woodcut, printed in black ink from one block, coloured by hand, measuring 184 x 248 mm (image), signed in the image lower left M. P., signed in pencil lower right Margaret Preston, titled lower left 15 Proof Sturt’s Desert Pea etc., framed in black timber. Printed in an edition of 50 copies. This striking modernist woodcut features …
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# 42818
PARSONS Elizabeth (1831-1897)
Untitled (Pastoral view across St. Kilda and Albert Park) 1885
Watercolour on paper, 240 x 345 mm (image), signed and dated in image l.l. ‘E. Parsons 1885’; small vertical section of discolouration along right section of the image, otherwise very good condition; housed in a hand gilded period style frame by Jarman’s Framing after a design by recognised colonial framer Isaac Whitehead. Elizabeth Parsons (1831-1897) …
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# 43442
McLACHLAN, Phyllis (1905 - 1998)
Untitled (Lady with monkey) 1923
Watercolour with gold highlights on card, 334 x 254 mm, signed and dated ‘Phil McLachlan 23’ lower right; in very good condition. Housed in a custom timber frame in period style by Philip Tregear, Melbourne. A stunning original watercolour from the artist’s estate. Painted when McLachlan was just 18, it exemplifies her innate sense of …
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# 46319
[MOFFATT, Tracey]
Tracey Moffatt : Scarred for Life. 27 October – 19 November 1994.
Prahran, Vic. : Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, 1994. Exhibition room list. Foolscap folio, stapled, [2] pp., photocopied; all works in the exhibition were photo offset prints priced at $300 each (edition of 50); a good copy. Scarred for Life has become one of Moffatt’s most acclaimed series of photographic works.
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# 40913
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)
Rainbow
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1988. Second edition. Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and yellow embossed morocco, with inset linoleum block print to upper board, red endpapers; [42] pp of linoleum block-print plates and calligraphic text (calligraphy by Irene Sibley); all edges uncut, in fine condition. “67 copies of ‘Rainbow’ …
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# 46453
[BECKETT, Clarice]
Clarice Beckett
26 June – 21 July 2002. Melbourne : Martin Browne Fine Art in association with Niagara Galleries, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (foxed), pp. 34, illustrated in colour throughout, catalogue notes, biography, portrait photograph of the painter. A fine copy, with price list and invitation loosely enclosed.
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# 46452
[BECKETT, Clarice]
Clarice Beckett 1887 – 1935
Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 48 pp. Exhibition catalogue including full page colour images, with catalogue and commentary on the works. A fine copy.