Fine Art
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# 46721
Robert ASHTON (1950- )
Thin Air : a portfolio of 12 copperplate photogravure prints of Ladakh.
[Ladakh and Melbourne : the artist, 2013]. Complete suite of twelve copperplate photogravures, printed in an edition of 5; 290 x 390 mm (plate size), 395 x 485 mm (sheet size); all titled and dated 2013 by the artist lower left, and signed by the artist lower right in 2023; very fine, loosely housed in …
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# 45887
HEYSEN, Hans (1877-1968)
Gum trees, Ambleside
Charcoal on paper with conte highlights, 175 x 240 mm (sight), signed lower left, framed. A charming rural study by Hans Heysen, one of a number he made in and around Ambleside, his property at Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. The scenery is typically Heysen, featuring majestic gum trees in the landscape. Provenance : Private …
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# 46602
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Thieves’ kitchen
Created 1929. Etching, engraving, and soft ground, 253 x 304 mm, signed and dated lower right, edition 25 of 55 copies, in a vintage black timber frame. An etching by Norman Lindsay with enormous visual power, being a rollicking response to the poem Thieves’ kitchen written by Kenneth Slessor (copied in full below), first published …
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# 46678
CARMICHAEL, John (1803-1857)
Melbourne from the south side of the Yarra Yarra 1839
Original etching and engraving, 177 x 357 mm (plate line), mount burn, engraved inscription lower left Drawn by J. A. Adamson Esq., engraved inscription lower right Eng.d by J. Carmichael. for R.Clint, manuscript inscription lower centre in Tate Adams’ hand Melbourne 1839. Printed from the original plate in an edition of 100. No. 85 / …
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# 43178
GREGORY, Drew (1947 - )
From turmoil to peace 1998
Watercolour and gouache on paper, 650 x 400 mm, framed (99 x 71 cm). A highly detailed work by the acclaimed Australian realist. Provenance: Leonard Joel. The Auction Salon, 16 September 2021, Lot 3104
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# 46542
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
VII (Sculptural lithograph)
Lithograph, 18 x 23 cms, signed lower right ‘Jacks 87 – 89’, numbered lower left 2/10, and titled lower centre ‘VII’, framed in black timber (43 x 46 cms). A fine original graphic by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist’s estate. In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria staged …
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# 15277
MENARD, Romuald George (painter); THIERRY FRÈRES; SABATIER, Léon Jean Baptiste (lithographers)
Vue de Sydney et de l’entree de la Riviere de Paramatta (panorama in two sections)
Two plates, forming a continuous panorama, from: Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Vénus, pendant les années 1836-1839 … atlas pittoresque. [Paris : Gide, 1841]. Tinted lithographs, 170 x 420 mm; pale foxing to the margins of the first plate, else in fine condition. Custom framed in museum timber, measures 422 x 1138 mm. The voyage …
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# 45783
WOLRAB, Johann Jacob (1675-1746)
An early eighteenth-century German perpetual calendar.
Nürnberg : Johann Jacob Wolrab, [circa 1720]. Original wooden box, 270 x 105 x 40 mm, with two compartments containing removable cards: 6 double-sided cards for the months and 16 smaller double-sided cards for the days; each card is engraved and hand-coloured, but the larger cards also have hand-painted gouache decorations illustrating the months and …
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# 46355
M. STERNGERG & TURCO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE (publishers)
Group of five chromolithographic postcards with views of Hong Kong, early 1900s.
I. M. Sternberg, publisher. Hongkong Star Ferry Wharf. II. M. Sternberg, publisher. View of Peak Buildings and Roads, Hongkong. III. M. Sternberg, publisher. Queen’s Road Central and Chinese New Year Decorations, Hongkong. IV. Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store, publisher. Hongkong. Resting Place of the highest spot of the Peak. V. Turco-Egyptian Tobacco Store, publisher. The Peak of …
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# 46682
FRITZSCHE, Ulrich
[POSTER] Laienkunst
Malerei Grafik Plastik Kunsthandwerk. Zeigen vom 25.mai bis 30.Juni 1960. Zirkel fur bildende Kunst der Volkhochschule Pankow. (Verband bildende Kunstler Deutschlands, Bezirk Berlin). Kulturbundhaus Erich Weinert, Berlin-Pankow, Breiterstrasse 43a. Exhibition poster, 1960. Lithographic process, 580 x 400 mm (image), 880 x 720 mm (frame). A scarce Communist era poster for an exhibition of works by …
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# 46597
NATIONAL GAME COMPANY
The National Draught Board
Melbourne : National Game Co., [c.1920]. Thick board, 370 x 370 mm, folding, recto with printed chequerboard design (very good condition), verso with pictorial title label (some loss), outer boards with surface and edge wear.
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# 46278
Robert ASHTON (1950- )
Portfolio of 19 copperplate photogravure prints from the exhibition “Photogravure Images”, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, 1987.
[Melbourne : the artist, 1987]. Complete suite of nineteen copperplate photogravures, printed in an edition of 10; 195 x 295 mm (plate size), 370 x 460 mm (sheet size); all untitled, but signed and dated in the plate l.r. ‘Robert Ashton 1987’, and numbered at l.l. 1/10 (4), 2/10 (3), 3/10 (2), 4/10 (2), 5/10 …
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# 46021
HETZER, William, fl. 1850-67
Scene on Middle Harbour, Sydney, 1858-59.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 76 x 71 mm (arch-top format), original plain white mount 84 x 172 mm, recto with an erroneous lithographically printed caption ‘Wooloomooloo [sic] Bay, Pott’s Point, Sydney’; verso blank; both albumen prints are in fine condition, although a little dark; the mount is very clean and stable. An insect-damaged …
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# 45890
POZZI, Michel
[WW1; ARTIST’S BOOK] Commentaires et visions de l’humanité [à la] Marne
Paris : M. Pozzi, 1917. The first of 12 examples made by the artist; as far as we can ascertain, the only one extant. Folio (380 x 285 mm), artist’s original binding of full vellum, the upper board with artist’s manuscript calligraphic title, along with his monogram, name ‘M. Pozzi’ and ‘Paris 1917’ in red ink, …
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# 46468
HACHETTE
Globe Terrestre par Vivien de Saint-Martin
Paris : Hachette & Cie vers 1870. Terrestrial globe, 21 cms in diameter, chromolithograph gores on plaster sphere, mounted on an ebonised turned wooden base, total height 44 cms, the globe with some marks and light surface abrasion, but overall in very good condition without any signs of restoration.
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# 46467
Z. & B.
“Globe terrestre” (a box in the form of a pocket globe)
Paris? : Edit. Z & B. c.1910. Card box in the form of a pocket globe, 3 1/2 inches in diameter, the box in two halves split along the equator, which fit together to form the whole, some surface rubbing and detachment of the card inserts internally, a good example.