International Artists
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# 47396
SMITH, Jason
Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print
Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Fine copy. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. Quickly sold out. ‘This exceptionally beautiful Geelong Gallery-curated exhibition will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell (born 1960), and on the …
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# 47382
WARHOL, Andy; SHORE, Stephen; MORRISSEY, Paul; Ondine; Nico
Andy Warhol’s Index (Book)
With assistance of Stephen Shore, Paul Morrissey, Ondine, Nico, Christopher Cerf, Alan Rinzler, Gerald Harrison, Akihito Shirakawa and particularly David Paul. Several photographs by Nat Finkelstein. Factory fotos by Billy Name. New York: Random House, 1967. Quarto, First edition, silver card ‘tinfoil’ wrappers (a few handling creases, front free endpaper beginning to ‘unglue’ from upper …
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# 47373
BENNETT, James
Crescent Moon : Islamic art and civilisation in Southeast Asia
Bulan sabit : seni dan peradaban Islam di Asia tenggara.. Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, and Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2006. Quarto, laminate boards with acetate dustjacket, pp. 303, extensively illustrated, as new copy. Crescent Moon: Islamic art and civilisation in Southeast Asia is a spectacular visual exploration of the Islamic …
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# 47353
SHERIDAN, Noel et al.
Artists books / bookworks
This exhibition has been organised by the Ewing and George Paton Galleries, the Experimental Art Foundation, the Institute of Modern Art in conjunction with Laica California and Franklin Furnace New York. Melbourne : Ewing and George Paton Galleries, 1978. Folio, lettered paper portfolio (detached along folds, stained), 63 leaves (complete), each page loose as issued, …
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# 47341
YOUNG-SANCHEZ, Margaret
Cartier : the exhibition
Margaret Young-Sánchez ; with essays by Martin Chapman, Michael Hall, Stefano Papi, Pierre Rainero, Janet Zapata. Canberra, ACT : National Gallery of Australia, 2018. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. 304, lavishly illustrated, a very good copy. Never before have so many incredible diamonds, emeralds and other precious stones been seen in Australia. …
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# 47335
STEELE, Peter
The whispering gallery : art into poetry
By Peter Steele ; with a foreword by Gerard Vaughan. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2006.Quarto, silver lettered boards in dustjacket, pp. 128, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. Contains 55 poems, inspired by art works in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, illustrated alongside. Inspiration is drawn from the works of …
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# 47334
KELLY, William
Art and humanist ideals : contemporary perspectives
With artworks selected from the collection of The Archive of Humanist Art. An anthology compiled and introduced by William Kelly. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 287, 16 pp. illustrations. As new copy. In a radical departure form the conventional art history text, this unique volume brings together a number …
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# 47133
BROWNING, Robert; LOGSDAIL, William; PASSINI, Ludwig; FILDES, Luke; BLAAS, Eugène de; RUBEN, Franz Leo
Autograph signatures of poet Robert Browning, and artists William Logsdail, Ludwig Passini, Luke Fildes, Eugene de Blaas, and Franz Leo Ruben.
Piece of notepaper mounted on section of an album leaf, 125 x 110 mm, bearing the original autograph signatures (in ink) of six notable writers and artists of the late nineteenth century: Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet and playwright; William Logsdail (1859-1944), British artist; Ludwig Johann Passini (1832–1903), Austrian artist; Sir Samuel Luke Fildes RA (1843-1927), British …
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# 47193
Anon.
A Japanese matchbox label album.
Kobe, Japan : s.n., [c.1920]. Small quarto (250 x 180 mm), original ribbon-tied plain wrappers (chipped), the upper wrapper with onlaid sample matchbox label and printed title label ‘Match label. Including 500 different kinds. Kobe, Japan’; [50] pp, each page with 10 matchbox labels (rinpyo) carefully mounted, contents very clean and sound, with all labels …
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# 16082
ADEMA, Pierre-Marcel; DECAUDIN, Michel
Album Apollinaire : iconographie (Presentation copy for Sonia Delaunay)
Réunie et commentée par Pierre-Marcel Adéma et Michel Décaudin. [Paris] : Gallimard, [1971]. First edition. Small octavo, limp full leather with gilt decorated and lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket; a presentation copy, the half title inscribed by the authors for the artist Sonia Delaunay ‘A Madame Sonia Delaunay, en souvenir de simultaneisme, avec le sincère hommage …
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# 47235
LASINIO, Carlo (1759-1838)
La caduta degli Angeli ribelli. La Chûte des Anges ribelles
[Affreschi celebri del XIV e XV secolo]. Engraving, 390 x 445 mm. Published in Florence, 1821. A strong impression on wove paper, faint stain to upper third of the print, a short tear to upper edge and minor edge creases. The central image in Lasinio‘s engraving is St Michael the Archangel and the army of angels battling the …
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# 42516
MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)
Physique pictorial. A very substantial run of 77 issues 1951 – 1991
Los Angeles : AMG, 1955 – 1991. 67 issues of Physique Pictorial (a very substantial run, the first seven issues from 1951 – 1953 being photocopies reprinted in 1997, the original vintage printings beginning with vol. 5, no. 2, 1955, through to vol. 41, 1990), octavo, pictorial wrappers, each approximately pp. 32, black and white …
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# 46392
WARHOL, Andy (1928 - 1987)
The philosophy of Andy Warhol. (From A to B and back again). (Signed copy with drawing of a Campbell’s Soup can)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First edition. Octavo, boards in dust jacket, pp 241; a fine copy; the half-title is signed and inscribed by Warhol, accompanied by an original pen drawing by the artist of a Campbell’s Tomato Soup can, his most iconic image. Andy Warhol’s seminal self-analysing memoir, filled with his reflections of …
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# 47111
ESCHER, M. C.
M. C. Escher : 16 facsimile prints.
With an introduction by J. L. Locher, former Director of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Baarn [The Netherlands] : The Escher Foundation, 2008. Sixteen museum quality giclee reproduction prints of some of Escher’s most iconic images, printed on 310 gsm. handmade and acid-free German Etching paper from Hahnemühle, each 650 x 550 mm, accompanied by a …
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# 46886
HAMER, Heather (1885 - 1962)
Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs
Collected and illustrated by Heather Hamer. With a Foreword by Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, K.C.M.G. Ceylon : The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd., 1935. Quarto, gilt-lettered diced road, lightly scuffed and worn, pp. [36], illustrated with twelve full page black and white illustrations by Hamer, with tissue guards, illustrating in modernist style the nursery rhymes. Heather …
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# 46931
[CRUIKSHANK]. MAYHEW, Henry, editor
The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (coloured version)
Illustrated by George Cruikshank and H. G. Hine. London: David Bogue, 1851. Octavo, gilt-decorated flush cut cloth covered boards (dulled), text block slightly cracked, pp. 64, 24 (adverts.), extensively illustrated throughout, folding frontispiece by Cruikshank, fine original hand colouring. The frontispiece is an etching measuring 165 x 410mm, titled ‘Probable effects of over female emigration, …