Art Books

  • Women's Art Register. Catalogue of slides.

    # 46525

    WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)

    Women’s Art Register. Catalogue of slides.

    Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [May, 1983]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [2], 6, [8 index of Information Folders]; roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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  • Women's Art Register Extension Project. Catalogue of slides.

    # 46526

    WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)

    Women’s Art Register Extension Project. Catalogue of slides.

    Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [1983?]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [7]; roneo-printed; light creasing, Virginia’ Fraser’s annotations in pencil. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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  • You are invited to the opening of [The] An Australian Group Show. Brian Windridge, Jillian Gibb, Virginia Fraser, Fiona Hall. Photographers Gallery, 344 Punt Rd, South Yarra on Thursday July 3 [1986], 6.00 pm.

    # 46523

    PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY (Melbourne)

    You are invited to the opening of [The] An Australian Group Show. Brian Windridge, Jillian Gibb, Virginia Fraser, Fiona Hall. Photographers Gallery, 344 Punt Rd, South Yarra on Thursday July 3 [1986], 6.00 pm.

    South Yarra, Vic. : Photographers’ Gallery, [1986]. Invitation, 100 x 210 mm, black on white card, printed recto only; with Virginia Fraser’s revision of the first word of the title in felt-tip pen; a couple of light marks. The Photographers’ Gallery (and Workshop) was founded in 1973 by Paul Cox, Ingeborg Tyssen, John F. Williams …

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  • Violet Teague (signed copy)

    # 46685

    CLARK, Jane and DRUCE, Felicity

    Violet Teague (signed copy)

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 128, published in conjunction with the Violet Teague retrospective exhibition (1999), foreword by Professor Jaynie Anderson, contains 52 colour and black & white plates of Teague’s works, introduction by Jane Clark, essays by Felicity Druce, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Anita Callaway, Kay Vernon, Jeanette Hoorn, …

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  • Graham Fransella. Figures & landscapes. Paintings and prints 1984 - 2002 (deluxe edition)

    # 46654

    FRANSELLA, Graham

    Graham Fransella. Figures & landscapes. Paintings and prints 1984 – 2002 (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2002. Folio, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 128, extensively illustrated, foreword by Edmund Capon, a mint copy housed in a grand clamshell box, lettered with design on the front panel, containing a similarly designed paper folio housing an original Fransella etching, Head, signed and limited to 100 copies. The deluxe edition, limited …

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  • In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts

    # 46919

    GRANT, Kirsty

    In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts

    Melbourne : NGV, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. A very good copy. Includes artworks by Violet Teague, Margaret Preston, Ethel Powers, Helen Ogilvie, Geraldine Rede, Lionel Lindsay, Thea Proctor, Sybil Craig, Noel Counihan, Eric Thake, Bea Maddock, Dorrit Black and others.

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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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  • Odd roads to be walking. 156 women who shaped Australian Art

    # 46869

    FINUCANE, Paul and STUART, Catherine

    Odd roads to be walking. 156 women who shaped Australian Art

    Sydney : Sheila Foundation, 2019 (2023 reprint). Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. ”It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting’ …..so wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journeys of many artists can be described as ‘odd roads’, few were as original …

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  • Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)

    # 46707

    SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)

    Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)

    With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, slight sunning to spine, pp. 162, illustrated. A very good copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists …

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  • The Field

    # 46234

    NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA

    The Field

    Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1968. Folio, plain white card wrappers with die-cut title (lightly stained, wear to spine and edges), 94pp., extensively illustrated. Catalogue for the exhibition held 21 August – 28 September, 1968. A couple of light creases, previous owner’s name on first page. The seminal exhibition of twentieth century abstraction in Australia, …

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  • The Land beyond time : a modern exploration of Australia’s north-west frontiers. (signed copy with original pen drawing)

    # 46692

    OLSEN, John; DURACK, Mary; DUTTON, Geoffrey; SERVENTY; Vincent; BORTIGNON, Alex

    The Land beyond time : a modern exploration of Australia’s north-west frontiers. (signed copy with original pen drawing)

    With Mary Durack, Geoffrey Dutton, Vincent Serventy and Alex Bortignon. Melbourne : Macmillan, 1984. Folio, boards in dust jacket, 312 pp, fully illustrated; a very good copy. This copy signed and inscribed John Olsen and his then-wife Noel Hjorth also adding an original pen drawing of a pelican plunging its beak into the pond where …

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  • Australians at home : a documentary history of Australian domestic interiors from 1788 to 1914

    # 46691

    LANE, Terence; SEARLE, Jessie

    Australians at home : a documentary history of Australian domestic interiors from 1788 to 1914

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 449, extensively illustrated. A very good copy. “This study of Australian home interiors surveys the decoration, arrangement, and use of domestic interiors from the time the Europeans settled at Sydney Cove in the eighteenth century until 1914. Richly illustrated with over 500 …

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  • Hans Heysen. Watercolours and drawings (signed and inscribed copy, with the original illustrated prospectus)

    # 46764

    HEYSEN, Hans

    Hans Heysen. Watercolours and drawings (signed and inscribed copy, with the original illustrated prospectus)

    Text by Sir Lionel Lindsay and James S. MacDonald. Sydney : The Legend Press, c. 1952. Oblong folio, boards in dustjacket (a little edge wear), light offsetting to endpapers, 26 plates, signed by Hans Heysen on the endpaper ‘Yours very sincerely, Hans Heysen, Hahndorf Sept. 26th 1958’. Loosely enclosed : original prospectus with specimen plate, …

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  • Margaret Preston’s Lectures on art. Contained within Art in Australia, third series, number seventy-two.

    # 46712

    PRESTON, Margaret

    Margaret Preston’s Lectures on art. Contained within Art in Australia, third series, number seventy-two.

    Sydney : John Fairfax and Sons, August 1938. Quarto, original green wrappers, 80 pp. illustrated in colour and black and white, previous owner’s name to upper wrapper, a fine copy. Among the various articles and illustrations is a revised piece by Preston based on a series of lectures she gave at the Art Gallery of …

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  • Action Man Story

    # 46817

    HOWARD, Ian (1947 - )

    Action Man Story

    Montreal : the artist, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a hint of foxing), 40pp. with offset lithographed photographic images and text throughout. An important early experimental artist’s book created by the Australian artist while completing a master’s degree in Canada. Like much of his work, this book draws on Howard background in the military, it is …

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  • Criss Canning : Instagram moments (from the library of Criss Canning)

    # 46826

    CANNING, Criss

    Criss Canning : Instagram moments (from the library of Criss Canning)

    Unpublished : the artist, 2020. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, approximately 160 pages, illustrated with photographs taken from the artist’s Instagram account, documenting her painting, home, garden and travels. Printed in an edition of 10 copies for family. A self-published book of reminiscences and inspiration created by Criss Canning during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia in …

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