International Artists
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# 46569
FRECHES-THORY, Claire
The Nabis. Bonnard, Vuillard and their circle
Paris : Flammarion, 1990. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (price clipped), pp. 320, illustrated.
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# 46564
MENZ, Christopher
Morris & Company. Pre-raphaelites and the Arts & Crafts movement in South Australia
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated.
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# 46567
HOUFE, Simon
The dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists 1800 – 1914
London: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1978 (revised edition 1981). Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 520, illustrated. A comprehensive reference.
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![[NATURAL HISTORY] Josef Wolf, animal painter : autograph letter signed, discussing the overpainting of an ornithological photograph. London, June 1870.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_DSFB_5148-300x300.jpg)
# 41187
WOLF, Josef (1820-1899)
[NATURAL HISTORY] Josef Wolf, animal painter : autograph letter signed, discussing the overpainting of an ornithological photograph. London, June 1870.
Manuscript in ink, 4 pp., octavo bifolium (175 x 110 mm); headed ’59 Berners Street, London, 17 June 1870′, and signed ‘J. Wolf’, the letter is addressed to an anonymous recipient (‘Dear Sir’), informing him that ‘The Photograph of the Great Bustard is in the hands of Mr. Smit’, and promising to let him know …
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# 46293
FLECHTHEIM, Alfred
Matisse, Braque, Picasso: 60 Werke aus deutschem Besitz. Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin … 21. September bis Mitte Oktober 1930.
Berlin : Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, 1930. Original stapled cream-coloured wrappers with lettering and art dealer’s monogram in brown (scattered foxing to both wrappers); pp. 24, illustrated with 15 b/w plates; lists 10 works by Matisse, 24 works by Braque, and 26 works by Picasso; text in German; contents with some pale foxing (mostly confined to the outermost leaves), …
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# 46522
SMITH, Bernard (1916 - 2011)
The Formalesque : a guide to modern art and its history
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2007. Octavo, cloth bound boards in dustjacket, pp. 135, illustrated. As new condition, very fine. “In this well-illustrated book Professor Bernard Smith, who is often referred to as the father of art history in Australia, condenses the arguments presented in an earlier publication Modernisms History, 1998) into a very accessible …
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# 46490
GATEWOOD, Charles and William S. Burroughs
Sidetripping
New York : Strawberry Hill Publishing Co., 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, small crease to edge of wrappers, pp. [80], photographically illustrated, text excerpted from various works by Burroughs. Scarce photobook of American subculture, including queer groups, religious groups, fetishists and exhibitionists.
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# 46371
SPENDER, Stephen; HOCKNEY, David
China diary
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1982. First edition. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 200, illustrated. A fine copy of the first edition of Spender and Hockney’s illustrated tour of China.
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# 46422
ENTWISTLE, Peter et al.
Nerli : an exhibition of paintings & drawings
[Dunedin, N.Z.] : Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lprice sticker to lower panel), pp. 184, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Dunedin Public Art Gallery during 1988.
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# 46346
HOOVEN, F. Valentine
Tom of Finland. The official life and work of a gay hero
New York : Abrams, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 296, illustrated. New copy. Tuoko Laaksonen, also known as Tom of Finland (1920-1991), was an iconic and provocative artist who rose to cult status in the international gay community and beyond for his work celebrating gay archetypes and masculinity during a time when being gay was …
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# 46295
NEVILLE, Richard
Mr J W Lewin : painter & naturalist
Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling wear, spine sunned), pp. 272, illustrated; internally very clean, a good copy. Author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia – Birds of New South Wales, in 1813. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Mr …
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![[MELBOURNE] Portrait of Jules Joseph Lefebvre, the French artist who painted "Chloé". Paris, circa 1879.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/11/2024_DSFB_6561-300x300.jpg)
# 45829
[LEFEBVRE, Jules Joseph, 1836-1911); F. MULNIER (photographer)
[MELBOURNE] Portrait of Jules Joseph Lefebvre, the French artist who painted “Chloé”. Paris, circa 1879.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm; verso with the imprint of the photographic studio of Ferdinand Mulnier, 25 Boulevard des Italiens, which also mentions the gold medal awarded to him at the Exposition Universelle of 1878, and with contemporary captions in ink and pencil identifying the sitter as Lefebvre; in …
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# 46106
MOORE, David R.
The Torres Strait collections of A. C. Haddon : a descriptive catalogue
London : British Museum Press, 1984. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 110 pp. + 80 pp. with 450 b/w photographic illustrations; a couple of pale spots of foxing to preliminaries, else a fine copy. An important catalogue – scholarly and very well illustrated – of the material culture field-collected …
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# 46003
TRÉHIN, Jean-Yves.
Tahiti : l’Éden à l’épreuve de la photographie : une histoire de la photographie à Tahiti et dans les îles, 1859-1940
Paris : Gallimard, 2003. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 207, illustrated, a fine copy. Includes works by: Gustave Viaud, Paul-Emile Miot, Eugène Courret, Charles & Susan Hoare, Charles Georges Spitz, Lucien Gauthier, Roger Parry, Thérèse Le Prat, Henri Lemasson, Jules Agostini. A significant survey of early photography in Tahiti.
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# 46223
MANION, Margaret; VINES, Vera F.
Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections (signed copy)
Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 1984. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 240; addendum, a fine copy, signed by Margaret Manion on the endpaper.
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# 46257
ACKERMAN, Gerald M.
The Life and Work of Jean-Leon Gerome, with a catalogue raisonne
London : Sotheby’s Publications, 1986. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 352, extensively illustrated. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the endpaper.