Graphics
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# 46007
SIMS, Paddy Japaljarri (c. 1917 - 2010); STEWART, Paddy Japaljarri (1935 - 2013)
Yuendumu Doors suite
Darwin : Northern Editions Print Workshop for Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, 2000. Thirty sugar lift etchings, printed in colour from single plates, each titled lower centre and editioned lower left 56 / 75 by the publisher, each personally signed by the artist either ‘P S’ (Paddy Stewart) or ‘X’ (Paddy Sims, who could not write), each …
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# 45717
BLUTH, Manfred (1926-2002)
Gallipoli-Kampagne.
Berlin : Graphische Werkstatt, [1975]. Edition limited to 20 copies (no. 2), signed and numbered by the artist. Oblong elephant folio, original red cloth boards lettered in black (a few light marks) with black cord binding, containing 12 coloured lithographs signed by the artist, each 370 x 750 mm; text in German, English and Latin. …
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# 45808
NISSEN, Claus (1901 - 1975)
Bestiaries of Five Centuries.
Description and Introduction by the late Claus Nissen. Edited and Revised by Sandra Raphael. With an Introductory by S. Peter Dance. Amsterdam : Antiquariaat Junk B. V. and Antiquariaat Schierenberg, 2024. Folio (29.8 x 21.3 cm). With sixty-one original prints, many hand-coloured, from famous zoological books published between 1491 and 1878; each mounted, matted, and …
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# 45832
OLSEN, John (1928 - 2023)
Paella (signed print)
Offset lithograph, 210 x 150 mm, on fine paper (some examples are watermarked Holland, and some examples are not watermarked), personally signed by John Olsen. Some examples are signed in pen and dated ’08 and some examples are signed in pencil and dated ’07. A whimsical signed print of one of John Olsen’s recurring subjects, …
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# 45554
[BLACK AMERICANA] Four nineteenth-century Christmas and New Year’s greeting cards with racist caricatures of African American men and women.
[New York, NY] : Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1880s]. Four chromolithographed cards, in uniform 102 x 63 mm format; rectos featuring a head-and-shoulders caricature and a greeting below, with ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons, Copyright’ in fine print across lower margin; versos with the RT&S monogram trademark and ‘Artistic Series 1256’; a couple of small marks, …
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# 45556
W. J. NORMAN (publisher / retailer)
Carte de visite photograph of a French risqué print, published and sold in Melbourne around 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘W. J. Norman, Looking Glass & Picture Frame Manufacturer, 94 & 170 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Looking Glasses Re-silvered, Frames Re-gilded. Great variety of Photographs’; some very light foxing to the print, more pronounced on the verso. We have previously …
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# 30168
BIGOT, Georges Ferdinand (1860-1927)
Croquis Japonais par G. Bigot. 1886. Tokio. [Bound with] Le Jour de l’an au Japon.
[Tokyo : The artist, 1886]. Two volumes in one, large folio (480 x 330 mm) (as issued), slightly later half burgundy crushed morocco over marbled papered boards ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, pastedown with bookplate of Grolier Club Library with its ‘WITHDRAWN’ stamp, marbled endpapers, original Japanese textured grey paper …
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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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# 44876
COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)
Swanston Street (1863)
Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.5 × 36.5 cm (image); 28.0 × 37.9 cm (outer framing line); 35.5 x 45.5 cm (trimmed sheet), a few spots of foxing, old repaired tear extending to the edge of the image upper right, mounted. A fine view looking down the main boulevard of Melbourne during the height of …
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# 44874
COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)
Sandridge from Hobson’s Bay (1863)
Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.6 × 35.7 cm (image); 28.0 × 37.1 cm (outer framing line); 40.1 × 52.3 cm (sheet), a few spots of foxing, old repaired tear extending to the edge of the image upper right, mounted. A fine, animated view of Sandridge (now called Port Melbourne), from Troedel’s The Melbourne album …
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# 44875
COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)
Botanical Gardens (1863)
Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.3 × 36.1 cm (image); 28.1 × 37.8 cm (outer framing line); 31.6 × 41.0 cm (trimmed sheet), a few spots of foxing, mounted. A fine view looking across the Yarra River and the City of Melbourne from the Botanical Gardens, taken from Troedel’s The Melbourne album (Melbourne : Charles …
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# 45176
[SHIRLOW, John]. CROLL, R. H.
The Etched Work of John Shirlow (deluxe edition)
Selected reproductions in half-tone of John Shirlow’s handicraft. Biography by R. H. Croll. Melbourne: Alexander McCubbin, n.d. [1920]. Quarto, quarter-calf over cloth, bookplate to front pastedown, 20 tipped-in plates reproducing Shirlow’s works. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, with an original etching by Shirlow tipped-in.
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# 45127
SHIRLOW, John (1869 - 1936)
Four etchings by John Shirlow (presentation copy)
Melbourne : Decoration Galleries, 1921. Quarto, quarter-vellum over papered boards with printed title label (foxed and marked), 12 pp, ‘An appreciation’ written by Hugh Grant Adam, four original signed etchings by John Shirlow tipped-in. The etchings are The Gothic Spire, The Distant City, Princes Bridge, and The Laneway. Limited to 57 copies of which 50 …
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# 44205
DUXBURY, Lesley (co-ordinator)
The 100 x 100 Portfolio : 100 prints by 100 Australian artists
Melbourne : Print Council of Australia, 1988. Solander box (lightly worn) with title label made by Ilme Simmul containing 100 original loose etchings and graphics by Australian artists, each signed end editioned 91 / 100, accompanied by the 64 page illustrated catalogue. A remarkable collection of original artworks by leading Australian printmakers compiled for the …
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# 44815
CONDER, Charles (1868 - 1909)
The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition
The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition. At Buxton’s Rooms opened 17 August 1889. [Melbourne: Fergusson and Mitchell, 1889]. Engraving from original zinc plate measuring 140 x 83 mm (image) printed in black ink on laid paper measuring 245 x 150 mm. A proof impression of the front cover of the exhibition catalogue, designed by Charles …
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# 44206
HAZELWOOD, Art; RÖTZCHER, Klaus-Ulrich
Tora Bora / توره بوره / Black dust : an opera in three acts
[San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2011. Handmade artist’s book in the form of a foldout diorama. Screenprinted boards with cloth joints which open and assemble to create a theatrical stage 320 mm high, 250 mm deep, 710 mm wide, the floor of the stage lined with grooves into which can be inserted one or more …