Paintings & Drawings
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# 44070
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Guitar
Painted in Harcourt, circa 1990s. Oil on canvas, 352 x 250 mm, signed verso. A fine 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 retrospective of …
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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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# 44073
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Sculptural form 2001
Painted in Harcourt. Oil on canvas, 610 x 610 mm, signed and dated verso. A fine 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 retrospective of …
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# 44068
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Abstract composition
Painted in Harcourt, circa 1990s. Oil on canvas, 505 x 505 mm, signed verso. A fine 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 retrospective of …
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# 44074
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Flamenco 2001
Painted in Harcourt. Oil on canvas, 610 x 610 mm, signed and dated verso. A fine 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 retrospective of …
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# 44071
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Abstract with guitar 2003
Painted in Harcourt. Oil on canvas, 610 x 460 mm, signed and dated verso. A fine 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 retrospective of …
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# 44069
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Spanish group 1996
Painted in Harcourt. Oil on canvas, 710 x 710 mm, signed, titled and dated verso. A fine 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 retrospective …
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# 44768
GIBBES, Francis Blower (1815 - 1904)
Staghorn Creek, Yackandandah, 1877
Watercolour on card, 380 x 550 mm, signed and dated lower left: F. B. Gibbes / 1877, in a gilded period frame. A large format, picturesque watercolour of regional Victoria. Francis Blower Gibbes was born in Gretna Green, Scotland, in 1815, son of Captain Francis Blower and Elizabeth Sarah, nee Saffrey. The family emigrated to New …
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# 43629
SOUTH CANTERBURY COUNCIL; CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART (TIMARU)
Unique album presented to the Duke and Duchess of York by the citizens of South Canterbury, New Zealand, during the royal visit in March 1927: with an illuminated address and original watercolours.
Large square quarto, 310 x 280 mm, purple suede over bevelled boards (virtually unrubbed), front board with gilt-tooled decoration and lettering ‘South Canterbury, New Zealand, 16th March 1927’, lower board also decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; silk endpapers; [14] leaves of white card, the first [6] containing an elaborate illuminated address headed ‘To Your …
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# 44331
[Anon.]
[CRIMEAN WAR] Sketch of French, British and Russian troops carrying away their dead under a flag of truce during the Siege of Sebastopol, 24 March 1855.
Graphite and ink on onion skin paper, 520 x 330 mm (irregular); unsigned; numerous annotations in ink by the artist identifying various scenes in the drawing, with his extended caption occupying the bottom margin reading: ‘Town of Sebastopol away to the left … Flag of Truce, March 24th after the sortie on the night of …
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# 44330
[Anon.]
[CRIMEAN WAR] Watercolour view of Sebastopol from the heights, 1854-55.
Watercolour on paper, 315 x 200 mm; unsigned; verso inscribed in pencil in contemporary hand ‘Crimea’; tiny loss at lower left corner, otherwise well preserved; archival matted. This watercolour is probably the work of a war correspondent attached to the British troops outside Sebastopol in 1854-55. The Siege of Sevastopol (which was at the time called …
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# 44422
FOSTER & MARTIN (photographer); [McCRAE, Georgiana Huntly, artist]
Carte de visite photograph of a watercolour portrait of Benbenjie, a Bunurong man.
Melbourne : Foster & Martin, [1879]. Albumen print photograph in carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Foster and Martin, 55 & 57 Collins St. East, Melbourne’; the print has a few light marks, not seriously affecting the portrait itself; the mount has a small section of insect damage …
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# 42458
[HARVEY, William, 1752-1807]
Midshipman William Harvey, sailor on all three voyages of Captain Cook : his watercolour portrait and snuff box.
Watercolour on paper, 247 x 227 mm, in an early gilded wood and gesso frame, inscribed verso Midshipman Hardy [sic] of Ct. Cook’s Ship Discovery 1779. Exhibited: Endeavour voyage: the untold stories of Cook and the First Australians. National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2 June 2020 – 26 April 2021. Reference: Coates, Ian (editor). Endeavour voyage, the …
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# 42922
Henry BONE, ARA (1755-1834), after Sir William Beechey, RA (1753-1839)
Portrait miniature of Robert, Lord Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760-1816).
Enamel on copper, image 75 x 60 mm (oval format); inscribed, signed and dated on the counter-enamel verso: ‘The Rt. Honble. The Earl of Buckinghamshire. Painted by Henry Bone ARA. Enamel Painter to HRH the Prince of Wales. Jany 1806’; some traces of surface dirt to the sitter’s face and hair, and some very minor …
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# 37295
SAINSON, Louis-Auguste de (1800-1874)
The artist with companions from the Astrolabe in the rainforest at Carteret Harbour, New Ireland (1827).
Watercolour and ink on paper, 398 x 287 mm (entire sheet); contemporary inscription in ink to verso: 80. Vue du grand torrent et d’une forêt / Hâvre Carteret; the artist’s own re-worked section (80 x 110 mm, irregular) carefully pasted on at lower left; short closed tear at right edge; extremely well preserved. A very early depiction of …
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# 43856
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)
Untitled [kookaburra with winged imp and fairy]
Pen and ink on card, 125 x 175 mm (mount line), signed lower left I.R.O., framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators, most likely prepared for publication. Provenance : private collection, Melbourne, since the 1970s