Paintings & Drawings
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# 51559
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Renaissance 1961
Watercolour on paper, 56.0 x 89.0 cm; 85.0 x 115.0 cm (framed), signed and dated lower right: Norman Lindsay / 1961. One of the most ambitious watercolours ever created by Norman Lindsay, painted in epic large format. A highly complex figurative composition, in which the octogenarian painter displays a lifetime of experience in capturing the …
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# 51301
O'CONNOR, Vic (1918 - 2010)
Fish Market c. 1948
Charcoal on paper, 115 x 180 mm (sheet) signed and title flower right, small cut to upper left margin, part of figurative sketch verso, unframed. A dynamic charcoal sketch of the Fish Market by the Melbourne social realist artist.
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# 51300
O'CONNOR, Vic (1918 - 2010)
Collingwood – Near Smith St. 1960
Charcoal on paper, 180 x 235 mm (sheet) signed and title flower right, unframed. A dynamic charcoal sketch of Collingwood by the Melbourne social realist artist.
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# 51302
O'CONNOR, Vic (1918 - 2010)
Study of the House of Parliament at the Embankment ’73
Charcoal on paper, 212 x 299 mm (sheet) signed and title flower centre, unframed. A dynamic charcoal sketch of the Palace of Westminster, London, by the Melbourne social realist artist.
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# 37932
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Ned Kelly with carcass, 1971 (blue crayon)
Original etching printed in sepia from Nolan’s ‘Dust’ series, 255 x 300 mm, print on sheet measuring 640 x 480 mm, the etching surrounded by a hand-drawn Ned Kelly Helmet in light and dark blue chalks, signed with Nolan’s backward ‘N’. Framed in museum timber frame measuring 990 x 810 mm. An unique work incorporating …
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# 37933
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Ned Kelly with carcass, 1971 (orange crayon)
Original etching printed in sepia from Nolan’s ‘Dust’ series, 255 x 300 mm, print on sheet measuring 640 x 480 mm, the etching surrounded by a hand drawn Ned Kelly Helmet in orange and yellow chalks, signed with Nolan’s backward ‘N’. Framed in museum timber frame measuring 990 x 810 mm. An unique work incorporating …
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# 51431
GOODWIN, Harry (1842 - 1925)
The wilderness shall blossom (1920)
Watercolour on paper, signed in monogram lower right, dated 1920, titled The Wilderness Shall Blossom lower right, 33 x 49.5 cms (sight), in a gilt frame with slip, 66 x 81 cms. Henry Richard “Harry” Goodwin (1842–1925) was a British landscape artist noted for his refined watercolours and oil paintings of English and Continental subjects. …
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# 50880
BATTARBEE, Rex (1893 - 1973)
Fashion, 1924
Pen and ink on artist’s board, 200 x 65 mm (image), 255 x 115 mm (card), tissue guard, unsigned, verso with the artist’s design label ‘R. E. Battarbee, Fashion Artist, Illustrator & Designer, 2nd Floor, 372 Flinders Lane’, authenticated by the artist’s daughter Gayle Quarmby. An exquisite small pen and ink by Australian artist Rex …
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# 49803
EMBLING, Sabina Howitt [&] SINGLETON, Violet Etta
Commonplace book compiled by a young Melbourne woman (1867-78) with later entries by her daughter (1889-1890).
An astonishing artefact of Melbourne social history, in which the intimate voices of two young women – a mother and daughter from one of the city’s most elite families of the second half of the nineteenth century – cry, whisper and sing from the pages, after having been lost to history for over 130 years. …
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# 46852
McCRAE, George Gordon (1833-1927)
Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)
[Melbourne, c.1871]. Ink and wash on paper, 235 x 285 mm (sheet), signed in the image lower left ‘G G McCrae’, titled by the artist lower centre ‘Carrion Vulture (Vultur Bismarckii)’; laid down on board. A large-scale allegorical sketch depicting Bismarck picking over the corpses of France and Liberty, by the Melbourne literary figure George …
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# 50491
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1922)
Study for ‘Mrs. Fraser’ c. 1966
Coloured crayons on card, 27 x 25.5 cm (image), 33 x 25 cm (sheet), signed in pencil centre right. A study, or abstracted variation for the major the 1947 painting of Mrs Fraser, a theme Nolan would return to in the 1960s and 70s. ‘A female figure representing a certain Mrs Fraser … has the …
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# 50490
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1922)
Study for ‘Inferno’ c. 1966
Coloured crayons on card, 20 x 20 cm (image), 33 x 25 cm (sheet), signed in pencil lower right. A study for the major nine panel work ‘Inferno’ currently on long term loan from the The Estate of Lady Nolan to the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery. ‘Nolan immersed himself in the myths of the …
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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. …