International Artists

  • The complete letters of Vincent van Gogh : with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

    # 46724

    van GOGH, Vincent (1853 - 1890)

    The complete letters of Vincent van Gogh : with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

    Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2001. A Bulfinch Press Book. Third edition, second printing. Three volumes, octavo, blue buckram lettered in gilt on the spine, with gilt decoration, pp. lxviii; 559; 625; 625, illustrations, a fine set housed in the publisher’s buckram slipcase. ‘One of the most important and powerful works in the literature …

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  • Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    # 46700

    KEITH, Elizabeth (illustrator); SCOTT, Elspet Keith Robertson (text)

    Old Korea : the land of morning calm

    London : Hutchinson & Co., 1946. Quarto, decorated cloth in dustjacket (worn, chips with losses, old tape repairs), pp. 72, colour frontispiece, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, preliminaries foxed, internally fine. Scarce, a very good copy in the flimsy dustjacket, an important illustrated account of Korea.

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  • Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 - 1981

    # 46677

    Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

    Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 – 1981

    [New York and Sydney] : the artist, 1973 – 1981. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, manuscript title page, nine sections of original rubber stamp works, each between two and three pages each and containing five or six rubber stamps per page, each section separated with a blank page. An unique …

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  • Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985

    # 46676

    Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

    Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985

    Melbourne : the artist, 1985. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, unpaginated, being an artist’s book of photocopied (xeroxed) designs.   Provenance : the estate of Robert Jacks.    

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  • Rosalie Gascoigne / Colin McCahon : sense of place

    # 46622

    McCAHON, Colin; GASCOIGNE, Rosalie

    Rosalie Gascoigne / Colin McCahon : sense of place

    Sydney : Ivan Dougherty Gallery and Melbourne : The Ian Potter Gallery, 1990. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, lightly marked, pp. 64, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held “on the occasion of the Sesquicentenary of New Zealand, 1990”. Scarce.

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  • Between two worlds : Escher x Nendo

    # 46878

    ESCHER, M. C.

    Between two worlds : Escher x Nendo

    Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2018. Quarto, boards in slipcase, a few light marks, pp. 325, illustrated. A very good second hand copy. Originally released at the retail price of $49.95, this book won the Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Under $50, and Designers’ Choice Book of the Year awards from the Australian Book Designers …

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  • Claude Flight and his followers : the colour linocut movement between the wars

    # 46797

    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. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the title page.

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  • Napoleon : revolution to empire

    # 46720

    GOTT, Ted et al.

    Napoleon : revolution to empire

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xv, 313, illustrated. Includes a chapter on the Baudin Expedition to Australia. ” This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social …

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  • The Felton Illuminated Manuscripts in the National Gallery of Victoria

    # 46689

    MANION, Margaret (1935 - 2024)

    The Felton Illuminated Manuscripts in the National Gallery of Victoria

    Melbourne, National Gallery Victoria / Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 440, extensively illustrated. Fine copy of the hardback edition, as new. “This scholarly publication ‘The Felton illuminated manuscripts in the National Gallery of Victoria’ celebrates the Gallery’s small but distinguished collection of illuminated manuscripts and eloquently comments on the development of the handwritten …

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  • A catalogue of Greek vases in the collection of the University of Melbourne at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

    # 46688

    CONNOR, Peter and JACKSON, Heather

    A catalogue of Greek vases in the collection of the University of Melbourne at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2000. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 208, extensively illustrated.  A fine copy. The catalogue of the University of Melbourne’s superb collection of Greek vases is now published as a sumptuous, fully colour-illustrated, cloth-covered volume which will suit the needs of students, researchers and interested readers. This richly illustrated book is …

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  • [POSTER] Laienkunst

    # 46682

    FRITZSCHE, Ulrich

    [POSTER] Laienkunst

    Malerei Grafik Plastik Kunsthandwerk. Zeigen vom 25.mai bis 30.Juni 1960. Zirkel fur bildende Kunst der Volkhochschule Pankow. (Verband bildende Kunstler Deutschlands, Bezirk Berlin). Kulturbundhaus Erich Weinert, Berlin-Pankow, Breiterstrasse 43a. Exhibition poster, 1960. Lithographic process, 580 x 400 mm (image), 880 x 720 mm (frame). A scarce Communist era poster for an exhibition of works by …

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  • Memory and Desire. Painting in Britain and Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century.

    # 46603

    McCONKEY, Kenneth

    Memory and Desire. Painting in Britain and Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century.

    Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing, 2002. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xvi, 304, illustrated. ‘An illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the 20th century. It calls upon rich resources of contemporary diaries, letters and art criticism, as well as the analysis of works of art to answer questions about how …

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  • French genre painting in the eighteenth century

    # 46606

    CONISBEE, Philip (editor)

    French genre painting in the eighteenth century

    Washington : National Gallery of Art, 2006. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 319, illustrated. Studies in the history of art, No. 72; Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. A fine copy ‘Fifteen international scholars present their latest research into the contexts and meanings of French genre painting of the eighteenth century, from Jean-Antoine …

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  • Gauguin and the Impressionists at Pont-Aven

    # 46604

    Le PAUL, Judy et al.

    Gauguin and the Impressionists at Pont-Aven

    Judy Le Paul with the collaboration of Charles-Guy Le Paul. New York : Abbeville Press, 1987. Printed and bound in Switzerland. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 284, illustrated.

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  • Colin McCahon : artist

    # 46623

    BRON, Gordon H.

    Colin McCahon : artist

    Wellington : Reed, 1984. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. x; 238, illustrated. A major monograph on the important New Zealand painter.

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  • William Morris textiles

    # 46562

    PARRY, Linda

    William Morris textiles

    London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling wear, pp. 192, illustrated.

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