International Artists
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# 51187
STEPHENS, Ann
Visions of a republic : the work of Lucien Henry . Paris – Noumea – Sydney. (Hardcover edition)
Sydney : Powerhouse Publishing, 2001. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. 240, extensively illustrated, presentation inscription to half-title. ‘Presents the extraordinary and little-known work of French-Australian artist Lucien Henry (1850-1896), whose vision for an Australian school of decorative arts and design was developed in the period leading up to Australian federation. It places …
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# 51182
COPPEL, Stephen
Claude Flight and his followers : the colour linocut movement between the wars
Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1992. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Includes artists such as Ethel Spowers, Eveline Syme, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Lill Tschudi, Dorrit Black, Eileen Mayo, etc. Loosely enclosed : the folding illustrated ‘Activity Sheet’ for the exhibition and a silver gelatine print of what appears to be an interior …
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# 51171
MAPPLETHORPE Robert
Robert Mapplethorpe 1970 – 1983
London : Institute of Contemporary Art, 1983. Second printing. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated.
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# 51153
LACK, Hans Walter
The Bauers : Joseph, Franz & Ferdinand, masters of botanical illustration. An illustrated biography
Munich : Prestel, 2015. First edition. Thick quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp. 496, extensively illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Filled with stunning 18th- and 19th-century illustrations of plants and other living creatures, this book is the first to bring together the life and art of the three Bauer Brothers, who came to be some of …
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# 50624
KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)
Old Korea : the land of morning calm
London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (lightly marked), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy, an important illustrated account of Korea.
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# 50837
[Photographer unknown].
Studio portrait of Gastone Lurini, brother of Futurist artist Marisa Mori, c.1915.
[Italy : s.n., c.1915]. Gelatin print photograph printed on postcard stock, 137 x 87 mm; verso inscribed in ink: ‘Gastone Lurini’; in good condition, the verso with paper borders from an old mount. Gastone Lurini (1898-1916) was the son of Italian writer and intellectual Edmea Lurini Bernini, and older brother of Marisa Mori (1900-1985), a …
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# 50838
BONDY, Ruth
What I meant to say : stories and travels as told to Ruth Bondy (signed presentation copy wth a small drawing by Yosl Bergner)
[Tel Aviv] : Hed Arzi Book Pub, 1997. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 223, illustrated. This copy with a signed presentation inscription to art historian, author and publisher Jenny Zimmer with a small pencil drawing by Bergner. ‘The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel …
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# 50810
HAZELWOOD, Art
Postcards From Asia
[San Francisco : the artist, circa 2000]. Quarto, concertina style bound artist’s book, papered boards, containing 14 original woodcuts, each signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 25. Created in a small edition with prints made for Hazelwood’s Walking up and down in Asia series (2000), with different prints included in each …
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# 51164
[CRUIKSHANK]. MAYHEW, Henry, editor
The Comic Almanack and Diary 1851 (deluxe issue, with the coloured version of the engraving ‘Probable effects of over female emigration’)
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, …
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# 50607
CRISP, Quentin (1908 - 1999)
All this and Bevin too
With drawings by Mervyn Peake. London : Nicholson & Watson, 1943. First edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (small hole to upper panel, extending to a couple of leaves, lightly marked), pp. 28, illustrated by Peake. A very good copy. A satirical tract on enlistment into the military by English raconteur and queer icon Quentin Crisp. The …
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# 51086
[COBB, Victor; et al]
Exhibition of prints and photographs of pictures by distinguished artists of fair and famous women
[Cover title]. Melbourne : [Committee for the Restoration of St. Katherine’s Church and Churchyard at St Helena, near Eltham], 1935. Octavo, lettered wrappers (stain on lower wrapper, small silverfish loss on lower wrapper), staple bound, pp 24; internally clean. Catalogue for the Fair and Famous Women Exhibition held at the Scot’s Church Hall, 26th, 27th …
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# 50861
HEALY, Robyn
Couture to chaos: Fashion from the 1960’s to now
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 76, illustrated.
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# 50902
GALBALLY, Ann
Charles Conder. The last bohemian (scarce hardcover edition)
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2003. Octavo, boards in slightly edge worn dustjacket, pp. xvii; 312, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies, this is the scarce hardback edition.
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# 50748
KAWS (1974 - )
KAWS : companionship in the age of loneliness (brand new copy)
Edited by Simon Maidment ; with text by Margaret Atwood. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2019. Quarto, illustrated boards, edges pink, pp. xi, 333, colour illustrations. A brand new, mint copy, still sealed in publisher’s shrink-wrap, purchased brand new from the National Gallery of Victoria at the time of the groundbreaking solo exhibition, and …
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# 50798
JACK, Kenneth (1924 - 2006)
Kenneth Jack’s holograph manuscript copy of Aaron Berkman’s book on art theory ‘Art and Space’
[Melbourne] : Kenneth Jack, 1953. Original holograph manuscript in brown ink, foolscap, title leaf, pp. 72, copying the text ‘Art and Space’ by Aaron Berkman (“condensed from the book”), illustrated with over 30 small pen and ink drawings describing the theories of the text, including reproduction sketches after Picasso, Rembrandt, Braque, Monet etc., tape to …
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# 50834
ANDERSON, Jaynie
Tiepolo’s Cleopatra
Melbourne : Macmillan Publishing. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 224, illustrated. As new copy. Professor Jaynie Anderson is an internationally recognised scholar, renowned for her research and publications on the Italian masters. On this occasion she has concentrated on one painting, the National Gallery of Victoria’s famous Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra by Giambattista Tiepolo. …