Paintings & Drawings
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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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# 43855
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)
Untitled [bunny rabbit with dancing elves]
Pen and ink on card, 225 x 145mm (mount line), signed lower right I.R.O., untitled, numbered ’24’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most likely prepared for publication. Provenance : private collection, Melbourne, since the 1970s
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# 43852
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)
The platypus sang a duet
Pen and ink on card, 110 x 178 mm (mount line), signed lower right I.R.O., titled in the image in pencil, numbered ’17’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most likely prepared for publication. Provenance : private collection, …
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# 43851
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)
I keep my baby in my pocket!
Pen and ink on card, 140 x 175mm (mount line), signed lower right I.R.O., titled in the image in pencil, numbered ‘1’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most likely prepared for publication. Provenance : private collection, Melbourne, …
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# 43849
OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888 - 1960)
The Flying Ace [and] The Chariot Race
Pen and ink on card, 270 x 188 mm (mount line), the lower illustration cut out as a rondelle, signed lower right I.R.O., titled in the image in pencil, numbered ’13’ upper left, framed. A charming original work by one of Australia’s most beloved children’s illustrators. The pencilled titles and number indicate it was most …
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# 43440
A Meiji-era album of original kimono designs.
Japan (probably Kyoto) : circa 1900. Silk-bound folding album measuring 485 x 335 x 60 mm, containing 68 original watercolours on card of exquisite kimono designs; numbering in Japanese; housed in a modern Japanese box, plain manuscript label to spine Hinagata (=Designs). A stunning collection of original kimono designs in vivid colour and with fine …
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# 41756
McLACHLAN, Phyllis (1905 - 1998)
“And one by one crept silently to rest” c. 1927
Watercolour with gold highlights on card, 232 x 207 mm; signed and dated ‘Phil McLachlan’ upper left, titled with the quote from Omar Khayyam lower centre, the quote further inscribed in the lower margin, trial pencil sketches verso, very good condition. Housed in a custom timber frame in period style by Philip Tregear, Melbourne. A …
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# 39542
DRYSDALE, Russell (1912 - 1981)
Western Desert
Watercolour, pen and ink on paper, watermarked Canson France, 145 x 225 mm (image), 162 x 248 mm (paper), titled and signed lower right, framed (framed size 465 x 525 mm). In this small gem of a painting, Drysdale effectively captures the expansive inland landscape, sparsely populated with the occasional rocky outcrop or patch of …
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# 18052
WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987); FRANKFURT, Suzie; WARHOLA, Júlia
Wild Raspberries. (Presentation copy inscribed by the artist)
New York : the artist, 1959. Folio (445 mm tall), original fuchsia papered boards (faded and paper lost at spine, as usual), title sheet, pp [42], comprised of 18 single illustrated leaves (one enhanced with original watercolour), one double-page illustration and one sheet with text, interleaved with eight sheets of fuchsia tissue paper, as issued; …
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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 cms). A highly detailed work by the acclaimed Australian realist. Provenance : Leonard Joel. The Auction Salon, 16/09/2021, Lot 3104
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# 42931
HOUGHTON, Suzanne
Goat on a boat (original cover art for the publication)
Colour pencil and watercolour on artist’s card, 310 x 295 mm, signed lower right, accompanied by a signed letter and related ephemera. The original cover illustration for the children’s book Goat on a boat (Sydney : Omnibus, 2019), written by Nick Dent and illustrated by Suzanne Houghton. ‘When a goat arrives on a rocky island, the …
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# 12837
BRET-KOCH, Ray (1902-1996)
Original gouache for the cover of Vogue Paris, 1935
Original gouache on card, 340 x 260 mm, signed in the image lower left, a little marked at edges. A stunning modernist painting by noted French designer Ray Bret-Koch for the front cover of Vogue Paris. Bret-Koch is recognised as a commercial illustrator and designer as well as architect active in Paris in the mid …
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# 42642
TATTERSALL, Nicole
Zebra
Stencil on stretched canvas, 305 x 305 mm, light marks, signed and inscribed verso ‘Zebra’ Nicole Tattersall March 2009. A fun decorative work by the Melbourne stencil artist.
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# 41263
NOLAN, Sidney (1917-1992)
Landscape, 1972
Mixed media on paper, 50 x 75 cms, signed lower right Nolan, finely framed in timber with gilt leaf and timber slip. A distinctive image of the central Australian landscape by the iconic Australian painter Sidney Nolan at the height of his career, exhibited as the first painting in his major solo exhibition in Tokyo …
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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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# 39609
French School
Portrait of a young Chevalier wearing the Collar of the Order of Saint Michael, his hand resting on his sword hilt.
French School, late 16th century. Oil on panel, 655 x 470 mm (octagonal); originally part of a larger work; a vertical split running the length of the panel has an old expert repair on the reverse; housed in a recent frame. A beguiling sixteenth-century French portrait of a member of the Order of Saint Michael. The Order …