Paintings & Drawings
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# 46683
BRIGHTWELL, L[eonard] R[obert] F.Z.S. (1889 - 1983)
Wild Friends at Home (original cover art)
Gouache on paper, measures 430 x 310mm, being the original painting illustrating the cover of E. Chivers Davies’ ‘Wild Friends at Home’ (London : 1920). In this volume a little boy enters the imaginary worlds of the wild animals whose pictures decorate the walls of his nursery. The fifteen short tales include his adventure with …
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# 36315
Anon.
A man of Dakar, Senegal, holding guinea fowl and rifle. Circa 1840.
Watercolour on laid paper with watermark of a royal horseman with lance, 200 x 146 mm (sheet); captioned in ink ‘Dackar’ (i.e. Dakar) at bottom left, and with a foliation number ‘114’ in the same hand at bottom right; the sheet is unmounted (verso blank), and the drawing has survived in fine condition – virtually 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 42818
PARSONS Elizabeth (1831-1897)
Untitled (Pastoral view across St. Kilda and Albert Park) 1885
Watercolour on paper, 240 x 345 mm (image), signed and dated in image l.l. ‘E. Parsons 1885’; small vertical section of discolouration along right section of the image, otherwise very good condition; housed in a hand gilded period style frame by Jarman’s Framing after a design by recognised colonial framer Isaac Whitehead. Elizabeth Parsons (1831-1897) …
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# 43442
McLACHLAN, Phyllis (1905 - 1998)
Untitled (Lady with monkey) 1923
Watercolour with gold highlights on card, 334 x 254 mm, signed and dated ‘Phil McLachlan 23’ lower right; in very good condition. Housed in a custom timber frame in period style by Philip Tregear, Melbourne. A stunning original watercolour from the artist’s estate. Painted when McLachlan was just 18, it exemplifies her innate sense of …
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# 33562
BRACK, John (1920-1999)
Standing Nude, 1980
Conte on paper, 73 x 52 cm, signed and dated lower right ‘John Brack 1980’, framed. Widely considered to be one of Australia’s great intellectual painters of the twentieth century, John Brack completed a number of critically acclaimed series of the female nude, which ‘remained his touchstone with one of the great traditions of art, a testing …
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# 44072
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Rhythmic resonance 2002
Painted in Harcourt. Oil on canvas, 1530 x 910 mm, signed, titled and dated verso. A fine major oil painting by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist’s estate. In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria staged a major retrospective of the artist’s oeuvre. ‘This exhibition represents the first large-scale …
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# 43243
BALCOMBE, Emma Juana (1823-1907)
Commonplace album of Emma Juana Balcombe (Reid), of “The Briars”, Mornington, Victoria. 1860s-80s.
Quarto (290 x 240 mm), lacking the upper board, but retaining the original elaborately tooled leather lower board and backstrip; approximately [70] leaves of paper in a variety of colours, containing more than 30 original pencil sketches and watercolour drawings by amateur artist Emma Juana Balcombe (Mrs Alexander Beatson Balcombe), including studies of native flowers, …
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# 45967
Anon.
Young’s Wine Catalogue
Circa 1930. Gouache on board, 235 x 160 mm, mounted on a later backing sheet and framed; fine condition. Original design for a wine merchant’s catalogue.
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# 44051
SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)
Mount Keera [sic] from Wollongong Rocks, N. S. Wales. 4 June 1852.
[Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 140 x 210 mm, initialed in pencil l.r. ‘W. S.’, with caption in ink beneath ‘Mount Keera [sic] from Wollongong Rocks, N. S. Wales’; dated l.l. in pencil ‘4 June’ and in ink beneath ‘1852’; laid down on card and tipped onto a fully contemporary backing sheet, 275 …
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# 44055
SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)
Nettle Tree, ab[out] 15 f. high. Dapto Bridge, Illawarra, NSW. 29 May 1852.
[Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 155 x 120 mm, captioned by the artist in pencil l.r. ‘Nettle Tree, ab[out] 15 f. high. Dapto Bridge’, and with date and general location l.l. ’29 May 1852 / Illawarra, NSW’; laid down on card and tipped onto a fully contemporary backing sheet, 300 x 240 mm; …
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# 44057
SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)
Cabbage tree palms, [American] Creek, Illawarra. [ca. 1852].
[Title from artist’s captions]. Graphite on paper, 180 x 130 mm, initialed in ink l.l. ‘W. S.’, and with the artist’s pencilled captions u.l. and u.r. ‘Cabbage’ [i.e. Cabbage tree palm]; laid down on card with the artist’s additional captions in pencil l.l. ‘Illawarra’ and l.r. ‘American Creek’ (the first word is very faint, but …
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# 44056
SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)
Morton [sic] Bay Figtree. Illawarra, 3 June 1852.
[Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 220 x 155 mm, captioned by the artist in pencil l.r. ‘Morton [sic] Bay Figtree’, and with date and general location l.l. ‘3 June 1852 / Illawarra’; laid down on card and tipped onto a fully contemporary backing sheet, 300 x 240 mm; the work has a vertical …