Hermannsburg School
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# 51328
NAMATJIRA, Albert (1902-1959)
Albert Namatjira : souvenir portfolio : six watercolours painted in Central Australia by foremost Australian Aboriginal artist.
Artarmon, N.S.W. : Legend Press, [circa 1960s]. Publisher’s illustrated envelope (edges rubbed), 185 x 235 mm, housing six colour reproductions of paintings by Namatjira, each 175 x 225 mm (sheet size), plus a seventh sheet with biographical information and b/w photographic portrait of the artist. Scarce. There are six variations to this Souvenir Portfolio, each with …
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# 51329
NAMATJIRA, Albert (1902-1959)
Albert Namatjira : souvenir portfolio : six watercolours painted in Central Australia by foremost Australian Aboriginal artist.
Artarmon, N.S.W. : Legend Press, [circa 1980s]. Publisher’s illustrated envelope, 185 x 235 mm, housing six colour reproductions of paintings by Namatjira, each 175 x 225 mm (sheet size), plus a seventh sheet with biographical information and b/w photographic portrait of the artist. Scarce. There are six variations to this Souvenir Portfolio, each with a different …
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# 51327
NAMATJIRA, Albert (1902-1959)
Albert Namatjira : souvenir portfolio : six watercolours painted in Central Australia by foremost Australian Aboriginal artist.
Artarmon, N.S.W. : Legend Press, [circa 1960s]. Publisher’s illustrated envelope (edges rubbed, birthday inscription verso), 185 x 235 mm, housing six colour reproductions of paintings by Namatjira, each 175 x 225 mm (sheet size), plus a seventh sheet with biographical information and b/w photographic portrait of the artist. Scarce. There are six variations to this Souvenir …
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# 51249
BATTARBEE, Rex and Bernice
Modern Aboriginal paintings
Adelaide : Rigby, 1971. 1976 reprint. Quarto, illustrated boards, unpaginated, illustrated in colour; a very good copy. Includes work by Albert Namatjira; Enos, Oscar, Gabriel, Ewald, Keith, and Maurice Namatjira; Edwin, Otto and Reuben Pareroulta; Henoch and Herbert Raberaba; Benjamin Landara; and the Ebatarinja family.
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# 51243
MARTIN, Edmond
Battarbee and Namatjira
Sydney : Giramondo, 2014. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 341. Biography of Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) and his mentor Rex Battarbee (1893-1973).
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# 51179
MOUNTFORD, Charles P.
The art of Albert Namatjira
Foreword by R.H. Croll. Melbourne : Bread and Cheese Club, 1955. Eighth edition. Quarto, papered boards with gilt lettering, in illustrated dustjacket (lightly rubbed, a couple of small creases to corners, but a very good copy), 79 pp, illustrated with b/w and colour plates.
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# 51178
HALL, Vic
Namatjira of the Aranda
Adelaide : Rigby, 1963. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, neat tear and crease to upper panel, pp. 56 plus numerous photographic plates. A fine copy.
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# 51109
McGREGOR, Ken
Hubert Pareroultja : ‘When the Rain Tumbles Down in July’
Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2024. Quarto (318 x 254 mm), pictorial laminated boards; illustrated endpapers, pp. 204, extensively illustrated. Printed in a small edition of only 300 copies. New copy of a title not in commercial distribution. Text and photographs by Ken McGregor, designed and edited by Jenny Zimmer. Hubert Pareroultja (1952 – 2024) was …
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# 50253
[NAMATJIRA]. HARDY, Jane, MEGAW, J.V.S., and MEGAW, M. Ruth
The Heritage of Namatjira : the watercolourists of Central Australia.
Melbourne : Heinemann, 1992. Large octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xxii; 350, illustrated in colour, an excellent copy. The primary reference work on the Hermannsburg school. A quality copy of a title which is out of print and quite scarce.
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# 50092
MCGREGOR, Ken
The life and times of Albert Namatjira
Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2021. Quarto (310 x 253 mm), laminated pictorial boards in illustrated dust jacket, pp. 448, extensively illustrated. Text by Ken McGregor, designed and edited by Jenny Zimmer. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. New copy. Printed and produced entirely in Australia. Destined to be regarded as the most authoritative, thoroughly …
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# 49799
RYAN, Judith et al.
Mythscapes : Aboriginal art of the desert
By Judith Ryan ; with an essay by Geoffrey Bardon. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (edges rubbed), pp. 104, folding colour plates. Includes chapters on Papunya Tula, Albert Namatjira and the Hermannsburg School, the Balgo Hills, Yuendumu and others. Inscribed by Felicity St. John Moore Provenance: The estate of the …
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# 48894
BATTARBEE, Rex (1893-1973); NAMATJIRA, Albert (1902 - 1959) et al.
Modern Australian Aboriginal art. (Limited deluxe edition, signed by the artists)
With a foreword by T.G.H. Strehlow. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1952. Folio, quarter crushed morocco with gilt rule over green cloth (sunned at fore-edges), spine with gilt lettering and rule; top edge stained blue; front free-endpaper with original owner’s names ‘C.C.T. & M.L.M. Hazelwood, Weonga’; the deluxe edition, containing two additional coloured plates and strictly …
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# 49035
BOWERS, Stephen et al.
From the earth : contemporary indigenous ceramics from Alice Springs Pottery, Ernabella, Hermannsburg Potters and Tiwi Islands.
Adelaide : JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, 13 December 2008 – 25 January 2009. Exhibition concept: Stephen Bowers; exhibition and catalogue development: Margaret Hancock. From the Earth is an investigation exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian ceramics …
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# 48606
BARRETT, Charles and CROLL, Robert Henderson
Art of the Australian Aboriginal (signed copy)
With a foreword by A. P. Elkin. Melbourne : The Bread and Cheese Club, 1943. Quarto, lettered wrappers, illustrated dustjacket (chipped, with loss to upper portion of upper and lower panels, printed title label applied to spine), related news clippings pasted on to dedication leaf, pp. 94, illustrated, internally clean, a very good copy, SIGNED …
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# 48600
WEST, Margaret K. et al.
Hermannsburg potters : lyate nwerne urrkngele mpareme = (now we are working with clay)
Darwin, N.T. : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated. Catalogue for exhibition; essays cover history of pottery at Hermannsburg; development of the Hermannsburg potters; works in exhibition include pots and ceramic tiles; biographies of artists.
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# 47139
CROMBIE, Isobel et a.
Brave New World. Australia 1930s
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, corners a little bumped, pp. 198, extensively illustrated. Includes works by Albert Tucker, Percy Leason, Daniel Vassilieff, Noel Counihan, Max Dupain, Dorothy Thornhill, Fred Ward, Sybil Craig, William Ricketts, Margaret Preston, Arthur Murch, Elioth Gruner, Freda Robertshaw, Albert Namatjira, Lionel Lindsay et al.