Paintings & Drawings
-
# 40249
AMOR, Rick (1948 - )
Collecting Wood, 1974
Oil on canvas, 35 x 40.5 cm, signed and dated lower left Rick Amor ’74, signed, dated and inscribed verso: Collecting Wood/ Rick Amor ’74/ oil on canvas/ 35.3 x 40.4 cm, 35 x 40.5 cm, original frame. A fine early oil by Rick Amor, the year of his first solo exhibition with Joseph Brown …
-
# 40244
SZYDLOWSKI, Henryk (1950 - )
Moonlight String Puppet with a Broken Heart, 2002
Oil on canvas with gold leaf, 90 x 120 cm, signed and dated lower centre, signed and inscribed verso, housed in the artist’s signature gold frame with linen slip and fillet. Polish born artist Henryk Szydlowski attained his Masters of Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, before emigrating to New Zealand in …
-
# 40245
SZYDLOWSKI, Henryk (1950 - )
Swallows poetry of the nest under the black bridge, 1997
Oil on canvas with gold leaf, 48.5 x 65.5 cm, signed and dated lower centre, inscribed verso, housed in the artist’s signature gold frame with linen slip and fillet. Polish born artist Henryk Szydlowski attained his Masters of Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, before emigrating to New Zealand in the 1970s …
-
# 9919
[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 …
-
# 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 …
-
# 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 …
-
# 32298
GREGORY, Drew (1947 - )
Eye in the sky (Peregrine falcon)
Oil on caravaggio linen canvas, circa 2010, 23 x 35 cm (image), signed lower left, framed in white timber. A fine work by the noted Victorian realist painter.
-
# 37396
Maker unknown
[CRICKET] Silhouette portrait of Bert Oldfield, Australia and New South Wales. Dated 22 February 1934.
Black card on white paper, 110 x 80 mm (image), 275 x 190 mm (sheet); captioned and dated in brown ink by the artist at lower left: ‘W. A. Oldfield / 22nd February 1934’; very well preserved. William Albert Stanley “Bert” Oldfield MBE (1894-1976) played representative cricket for New South Wales and Australia as a wicket-keeper. His Test career spanned almost 17 …
-
# 34682
GIBSON, Lavinia (née Featherstone) (1823-1888)
Commonplace book of Lavinia Gibson (Featherstone), wife of Hugh Gibson of Glenample Station, southwest Victoria, containing important ephemera relating to the Loch Ard shipwreck, including the earliest known eyewitness sketch of the disaster scene (by F. H. Bruford, customs officer) and an autograph signed note by Eva Carmichael (Townshend), one of the only two survivors.
Small quarto album (235 x 190 mm), original binding of embossed burgundy morocco ruled in gilt (boards a trifle scuffed), spine decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; first blank with a gift inscription to Lavinia Featherstone (later Gibson) from Annabella Helen Gibson (later Sloane), her future sister-in-law, dated 1 January 1855: ‘Give me …
-
# 30735
After George Frankland (British, 1800–1838)
Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816.
[Circa 1890]. Watercolour and ink on paper, 400 x 235 mm (image), 460 x 290 mm (sheet), with calligraphic caption in black ink at head of image (erroneously attributing the Proclamation to Governor Davey) surmounting four illustrations separated by ink-ruled lines; these pictorial sequences are intended to be read from bottom to top, and they …
-
# 34377
Anon. [after SAINSON, Louis Auguste de, 1800-1887]
An Aboriginal man of King George’s Sound, Western Australia. Circa 1835.
Watercolour on laid paper with watermark of a horse and rider and pair of scales, 200 x 148 mm (sheet); captioned in ink ‘Nouvelle Hollande’ at bottom left, and with a foliation number ‘184’ in the same hand at bottom right; the sheet is unmounted (verso blank), and the drawing has survived in fine condition – …
-
# 34579
SLATER, Edwin W.
Lady Amherst’s pheasant
Watercolour and gouache on artist’s paper, 200 x 330 mm (sheet), artist’s monogram in the image at lower centre, date ‘1961’ lower right; verso inscribed by the artist ‘Lady Amherst Pheasant’ [sic], with the date ’26.VIII.’61’; a few marks at corners and top edge, not affecting image; unmounted and unframed. Edwin W. Slater was born …
-
# 34578
SLATER, Edwin W.
Crowned crane
Pencil on card, 150 x 120 mm (image), 255 x 160 mm (sheet); artist’s monogram in the image lower right, and date ‘Melb. Jan. ’39’ lower left, with caption beneath; verso inscribed by the artist ‘A more finished pencil drawing, from the original sketch [made] in Melbourne Zoo’, and below it the artist’s name and address: …
-
# 34577
SLATER, Edwin W.
Eagle
Pencil on card, 210 x 120 mm (image), 270 x 175 mm (sheet); artist’s monogram and caption in the image lower right, and date ‘Melb. Jan. ’39’ lower left; verso inscribed by the artist ‘A more finished pencil drawing, taken from the original sketch [made] in Melbourne Zoo’, and below it the artist’s name and address: …
-
# 34576
SLATER, Edwin W.
Caricatures of anthropomorphic apes.
Pen and ink on card, 320 x 250 mm (sheet); signed and dated by the artist lower right ‘E. W. Slater 1902’; verso with the artist’s wet stamp ‘E. W. Slater, Broad Street, Whittlesea’ (Cambridgeshire, U.K.); water staining along the left-hand edge; unmounted and unframed. Edwin W. Slater was born in England in 1875 and …
-
# 34574
SLATER, Edwin W.
Parakeet
Pen and ink on card, 150 x 120 mm (image), 270 x 205 mm (sheet); artist’s monogram in the image lower right, captioned by the artist lower in the image ‘Parakeet’ [sic]; verso inscribed by the artist with the date: ‘11.1.41’; in fine condition, unmounted and unframed. Edwin W. Slater was born in England in …