Paintings & Drawings
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# 45114
ROBINSON, Catharine
[MAP OF MATRIMONY; AUSTRALIAN NATIVE BIRDS] A late Georgian-era album amicorum belonging to a London lady, with original drawings and poetry dating from 1832 to 1860.
Quarto (245 x 200 mm), original luxurious binding of full leather elaborately embossed, both boards featuring a central cartouche with a depiction of the Roman goddess Luna in her chariot and holding torch, the spine with the word ‘ALBUM’ in gilt at the head; gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original endpapers; pictorial title leaf engraved …
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# 45516
RUSSELL-CLARKE, Peter (1935 - )
Australian landscape
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 mm, shadowbox frame. Inscribed ‘For Doug / Peter Russell-Clarke’. Painted circa 2005. A miniature landscape painting by the celebrity chef, artist and author Peter Russell-Clarke. Provenance: Acquired at the artist’s solo exhibition at Delshan Art Gallery, Melbourne, circa 2006, signed and inscribed at the exhibition.
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# 45328
COUDERC, Fernand
Déclaration
Watercolour on paper, signed lower right ‘FERNAND COUDERC’, 230 x 250 mm; artist’s caption in pencil to lower margin: ‘-Que faites-vous donc, ami? / – Je fais comme l’automne: je déshabille la belle nature!’ (‘What are young doing, my friend?’ ‘I’m doing what autumn does: I’m undressing beautiful nature!’); an editor’s annotation in pencil at …
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# 22217
KOONS, Jeff (1955 - )
Balloon dog (yellow)
Limoges : Bernardaud, 2015. Edition of 2300 copies. Porcelain multiple, 10 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ x 5″ (26.7 x 26.7 x 12.7 cm), signed and numbered by the artist, in original mailing carton with signed certificate of authenticity by Jeff Koons. “Balloon Dog is an iconic work within the highly acclaimed Celebration series, which Jeff Koons …
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# 45280
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Circle of the Moon 1959
Painted in Melbourne, 1959. Oil on plywood, 400 x 500 mm, signed and dated verso, framed. An exceptional early work by Robert Jacks, with unbroken provenance, exhibited at his retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2014 and illustrated in both of the artist’s monographs. As quoted in his 2001 monograph, ‘This painting, with …
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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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# 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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# 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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# 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 …