Art Books
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# 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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# 46917
GRISHIN, Sasha
S.T. Gill & his audiences
Canberra, ACT ; [Melbourne] : National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 255, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia’s most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised ‘Marvellous …
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# 46877
[CARRICK, Ethel]. ZUBANS, Ruth
Ethel Carrick (Mrs. E. Phillips Fox)
A retrospective exhibition. Geelong, Victoria : Geelong Art Gallery, 1979. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with 57 plates in black & white, catalogue for the travelling retrospective exhibition of the works of Ethel Carrick [Carrick Fox].
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# 46875
MESSENGER, Jane
Patricia Piccinini : once upon a time
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2011. Folio, illustrated boards in plastic carry case (light handling wear), pp. 148, illustrated. Surveys the career of one of Australia’s pre-eminent contemporary artists. This is the first major book on Piccinini and is designed to reflect the scale and detail of her varied practice. Published on the occasion …
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# 46896
PERKINS, Hetti et al.
One Sun One Moon : Aboriginal Art in Australia
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 368, illustrated. This copy is still sealed in the publisher’s shrink-wrap, but it has a small amount of loss at the foot of the spine where perhaps it was dropped, and as such is sold as a reference copy. ‘Aboriginal art …
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# 46895
TAYLOR, Elena
Grace Crowley : being modern
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2006. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated, previous owner’s name to half-title, a fine copy. .
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# 46849
NOLAN, Sidney
Sidney Nolan. Works on paper from the ’60s and ’70s : mixed media paintings, lithographs and screenprints.
Melbourne : Bridget McDonnell Gallery, 1997. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, folded card, three panels, pp. [6], illustrated. Price list enclosed.
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# 46851
JAMES, Rodney
Aspendale Beach : an artists’ haven
Mornington : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, wraparound banner, one corner creased, pp. 54, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 650 copies.
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# 46868
CANNING, Criss
Criss Canning
October 19th – October 29th 1989. Melbourne Art Exchange. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers, unpaginated, 28 colour plates a fine copy.
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# 46894
KERR, Joan
The dictionary of Australian artists
Painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992. First edition. Thick quarto, boards in dustjacket, slight corner wear, pp. 889, extensively illustrated. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian artists. A fine copy. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian art, with much information not found online.
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# 46892
HAESE, Richard
Permanent revolution : Mike Brown and the Australian avant-garde 1953-1997
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2011. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light sunning to spine, pp. 297, illustrated. As the only Australian artist to have been successfully prosecuted for obscenity, Mike Brown is considered one of Australia’s most controversial figures. This captivating book offers a comprehensive account of this outspoken artist’s life and work. Brown’s imitation realism …
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# 46891
HART, Deborah
Joy Hester and Friends
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 136, illustrated. Detailed monograph from a major survey exhibition.
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# 46889
[SEPTIMUS POWER, Harold]. MIDDLETON, Max
The art of H. Septimus Power
Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1974. Quarto, cloth covered boards with illustrated dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 121, occasional light foxing, owner’s label to title page, richly illustrated throughout with 46 colour plates and 8 black & white plates of the artist’s paintings. A good copy.
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# 46554
[FRASER, Virginia]
Unsettled : Virginia Fraser, Dirk de Bruyn, Lorraine Austin. Kraznapolsky, 12/14 Grey Street, St. Kilda. Opening 24 May [2002] 6pm.
St. Kilda, Vic. : Kraznapolsky Gallery, [2002]. Exhibition flyer. 110 x 300 mm, printed recto only; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46846
NOLAN, Sidney (1917-1992); CLARK, Jane
Sidney Nolan : landscapes and legends
A retrospective exhibition 1937 – 1987. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, extensively illustrated. A major monograph on the paintings of Nolan. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title.
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# 46844
[NOLAN]. MISSINGHAM, Hal
Souvenir catalogue : Nolan
Retrospective exhibition, paintings from 1937 to 1967 : Sidney Nolan. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1967. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 40, illustrated with colour and monochrome plates, catalogue list of 143 works, detailed biography; essay by Hal Missingham.