Fine Art
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# 45518
PAGOWSKI, Andrzej (designer); ASIA AND PACIFIC MUSEUM, WARSAW.
[ABORIGINAL ART EXHIBITION POSTER] Sztuka aborygenów australijskich
Muzeum Azji i Pacyfiku w Warszawie / The Asia and Pacific Museum, Warsaw. Galeria Azjatycka ul. Freta 5. Mai 1990r. Warszawa : Muzeum Azji i Pacyfiku, 1990. Exhibition poster, 660 x 930 mm, unmounted; light handling marks, a fine example. Text in Polish. The exhibition’s title translates to “Australian Aboriginal Art”. It appears to have …
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# 44920
EDWARD, David Farquhar (1867-1896)
Aboriginal cricket team at Deebing Creek Mission, Ipswich, Queensland, 1894.
Photographic glass magic lantern slide, 82 x 82 mm; the negative has a manuscript caption along the left and right edges: Deebing Creek Cricket Club / from Deebing Creek Mission Station, and across the top and bottom edges are written the names of the eleven players who feature in the portrait: Billy Brown, Coolool, Thompson, Curtis …
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# 44930
JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)
Traveller sleeping in a mia mia. Central or northern Victoria, circa 1862.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on original card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount inscribed in ink: ‘Traveller sleeping in a mia mia’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints are in very good condition, as is the mount. This stereoscopic photograph …
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# 45074
[CORNELL, Frederick, 1834-1890, attributed]
Suite of five large-format views of Sale and East Gippsland, circa 1880.
Five albumen print photographs in uniform 215 x 270 mm format; versos with fully contemporary captions in pencil; a few edge nicks, otherwise in good condition, unmounted. The attribution to Sale-based professional photographer Frederick Cornell (1834-1890) is based on comparison with prints in the album of Cornell’s Gippsland views presented to Lady Loch in 1885, …
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# 44911
ATKINSON, Alfred (active FNQ 1895-1920) (attributed)
Kuku Yalanji warrior posing with a shield and spear. North Queensland rainforest region, late 1890s.
Albumen print photograph, 200 x 150 mm; laid down on its original album leaf of thin card; a very strong print with good tonal range; mount with scattered foxing. This type of ‘rainforest shield’ is called balan bigin by the Kuku Yalanji people. It is made from the soft wood of a fig tree known as magurra …
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# 45131
HAWLEY, Gideon Anson (aka Gedeon Andrés) (1829-1889)
Two rare cartes de visite by an American photographer working in Guatemala, 1863-64.
Two cartes de visite with uniform 101 x 61 mm mounts, each with four small head-and-shoulder portraits – one of men, the other of women; these all appear to be salt prints (not albumen prints), cut into oval format and mounted in an identical configuration on each carte; the versos have the same lithographed back …
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# 45020
A. KEN & CIE.
Studio portrait of the Vicomtesse de Courval (Mary Ray, an “American dollar princess”). Paris, early 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 98 x 61 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted ‘A. Ken & Cie., 10 Boulevard Montmartre 10’; verso inscribed in pencil in period and later hand ‘Madame de Courval’; both print and mount are in superb condition. The term “American dollar princesses” was coined to describe the wealthy …
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# 45013
[Photographer unknown]
Basuto girl. Port Elizabeth, 1911.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 220 x 170 mm, on its original card mount (300 x 250 cm); photographer’s manuscript caption in lower margin ‘Basutu [sic] girl: taken at Port Elizabeth / June 1911’; print and mount are both in excellent condition. This lovely portrait study came from a small archive of photographs by an unidentified …
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# 44937
MATHER, Jenni (photographer) & FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
Clothes as disguise (1979)
/ Little performances: Virginia Fraser / Photographs: Jenny Mather / Photocopies: Bunting and Robertson’s Canon. [Melbourne : Jenni Mather and Virginia Fraser, 1979]. Six gelatin silver print photographs, 140 x 90 mm, accompanied by six photostat enlargements; a few of the prints with chemical stains from the developing process, otherwise good condition, archived by Fraser …
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# 44934
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
A womb for the Pope : cards distributed at Right to Life rally and anti-Right to Life demonstration, Treasury Gardens, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Stencilled card, 90 x 110 mm; verso blank; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser was an artist, writer, editor and curator who made an indelible mark on the Australian art world. Initially trained as …
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# 44936
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
Pig and Dingo (did it) trifle : Commemorative trifle #1. Made for Women’s Weekly Bake-off party. Clifton Hill, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Polaroid photograph, 110 x 90 mm; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser was an artist, writer, editor and curator who made an indelible mark on the Australian art world. Initially trained as a newspaper …
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# 45328
COUDERC, Fernand
Déclaration
Watercolour on paper, signed lower right ‘FERNAND COUDERC’, 230 x 250 mm; artist’s caption in pencil to lower margin: ‘-Que faites-vous donc, ami? / – Je fais comme l’automne: je déshabille la belle nature!’ (‘What are young doing, my friend?’ ‘I’m doing what autumn does: I’m undressing beautiful nature!’); an editor’s annotation in pencil at …
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# 45325
COUDERC, Fernand
“Trait d’esprit”
Watercolour and gouache on card, signed upper left, inscribed lower margin “On donne de l’argent à une pouIe pour qu’elle se déshabille et à sa femme pour qu’elle s’habille” (We give money to the ‘chick’ (poule) so that she undresses, and to the wife so that she dresses”. A stunning and humorous original art deco …
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# 22217
KOONS, Jeff (1955 - )
Balloon dog (yellow)
Limoges : Bernardaud, 2015. Edition of 2300 copies. Porcelain multiple, 10 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ x 5″ (26.7 x 26.7 x 12.7 cm), signed and numbered by the artist, in original mailing carton with signed certificate of authenticity by Jeff Koons. “Balloon Dog is an iconic work within the highly acclaimed Celebration series, which Jeff Koons …
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# 43389
ANSON, Rufus
Daguerreotype of a young boy standing near a plinth. New York, 1852-55.
Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat stamped ‘ANSON 589 / BROADWAY’; ormolu preserver; housed in a half leather case with floral motif; the daguerreotype is in fine condition.
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# 43391
ANSON, Rufus
Daguerreotype of a young woman in mourning dress. New York, circa 1855.
Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 80 x 70 mm (sight), in a nonpareil brass mat stamped ‘Anson / Broadway’, ormolu preserver; housed in a leather case with geometric and scrolling vine motif, the front with partially remnant early paper label with the name ‘[A]dams’ in manuscript; the case has a working clasp, and the …