Paintings & Drawings
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# 48448
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Bird on a lamp post
Watercolour on card, 158 x 208 mm, verso blank, unsigned. An original artwork by Blackman of a bird on a lamp post, the red roof of a warehouse in the lower portion. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman The estate of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933-2025), art historian, curator and …
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# 50184
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
The cat’s plant
Etching and aquatint, 20 x 15 cm (plate line); 60 x 41 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (artist’s proof, the published edition was an edition of 30 copies), signed with Blackman studio stamp lower right, a few light spots of foxing, unframed. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) The …
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# 49132
WHITE, Mary
“Shanghae Flowers” (painted 1845 – 1847)
Album, 295 x 240 x 75 mm, thick embossed morocco bound boards, brass clasp, small bookseller’s label from Kensington, London to pastedown, later family inscriptions to endpaper, calligraphic title leaf in red and blue, heightened in gold ‘Shanghae Flowers. Presented to James White by his wife on his Birthday April X 1868’, two page manuscript …
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# 20851
THOMPSON, Henry Augustus
The world
[England] : Henry Augustus Thompson, 1853. Manuscript and watercolour map on card with the blindstamp of de la Rue Co, London, 450 x 570 mm (sheet), light surface soiling, old pin holes to corners, fine. A charming and unique manuscript map of the world in two hemispheres, with detailed decorative border vignettes and original hand colour. …
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# 20853
THOMPSON, Henry Augustus
The world
[England] : Henry A[ugustus] Thompson, December 7th 1855. Manuscript and watercolour map on card with the blindstamp of de la Rue Co, London, 450 x 570 mm (sheet), light surface soiling, old pin holes to corners, fine. A charming and unique manuscript map of the world on Mercator’s projection, with detailed decorative border and original hand …
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# 50049
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #2
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.
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# 50048
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #1
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.
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# 50052
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #5
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.
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# 50051
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #4
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.
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# 50050
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #3
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.
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# 14719
[VIENNA CAFE]
[MELBOURNE] Besses Banquet, Vienna Café, 20 July 1911.
Pen-and-ink illustration and calligraphy with onlaid silver gelatin photograph, on thin card, 420 x 200 mm (sheet); a few light marks to the upper margins, otherwise fine condition. A significant piece of ephemera from one of Melbourne’s most famous dining establishments of the 1890s and early 1900s, the Vienna Café, which occupied the grand premises …
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# 49371
NORRIE, Susan (1953 - )
An original hand-painted woman’s shirt, 1984
Woman’s t-shirt, 60 x 40 cm (approx), entirely hand-painted by the artist. One of a series of painted shirts executed by the artist in the early 1980s. Provenance: Stephen Mori Gallery, acquired 1984 private collection Sydney Rare Book Auctions, 12/14/2025, lot 27
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# 9915
[OLSEN, John]. McGREGOR, Ken
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (Publisher’s edition with drawing)
By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen and Jeffrey Makin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, silver decorated cloth in matching slipcase, 264 pp, illustrated throughout. First edition, first printing of the definitive catalogue raisonné of Olsen’s graphics. This is the Publisher’s Edition, limited to 20 copies (numbered in two series of 10 copies: this …
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# 49373
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
An original collage by Robert Jacks from his Bloomsday book
Collage, paper cutouts on paper, 50 x 40 cms (sight), housed in a black timber frame measuring 74.5 x 63 cms. Unsigned as issued. In 2004 Macmillan Art Publishing published Robert Jacks : his Bloomsday book, being ‘a dayfull of collages’ by the artist with accompanying poetry in celebration of the centenary of ‘Bloomsday’, 16 …
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# 49372
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
An original collage by Robert Jacks from his Bloomsday book
Collage, paper cutouts on paper, 50 x 40 cms (sight), housed in a black timber frame measuring 74.5 x 63 cms. Unsigned as issued. In 2004 Macmillan Art Publishing published Robert Jacks : his Bloomsday book, being ‘a dayfull of collages’ by the artist with accompanying poetry in celebration of the centenary of ‘Bloomsday’, 16 …
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# 49260
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Elvis (lilac version)
Etching, 19.5 x 25 cm (plate line); 22.5 x 40 cm (sheet), titled and editioned lower left E/P (Épreuve d’Artiste, or Artists Proof), signed with Blackman studio stamp lower centre, unframed. A fine Blackman etching which was printed in at least four variant colours, this example is in lilac. Provenance: The estate of the late …