Paintings & Drawings

  • Caricatures of anthropomorphic apes.

    # 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 …

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  • Parakeet

    # 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 …

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  • Study for Portrait (Peter Burns) 1943

    # 31913

    DOBELL, William (1899 - 1970)

    Study for Portrait (Peter Burns) 1943

    Oil on card, signed and titled centre right W. Dobell / Study / for Portrait, 38 x 30 cm, finely framed in period style. After several formative years spent in London, the mid-career Dobell returned to Sydney in 1938, just prior to the war. The next few years saw him produce some of his finest …

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  • Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (Publisher’s edition with drawing)

    # 9908

    [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 …

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  • [PORT PHILLIP] No. 1 Nelson's Place, Williams Town. June 1840.

    # 28919

    Artist unknown.

    [PORT PHILLIP] No. 1 Nelson’s Place, Williams Town. June 1840.

    Ink on paper, 122 x 270 mm; unsigned, but with artist’s manuscript caption lower left ‘No. 1 Nelson’s Place, Williams Town. June 1840’; scattered light foxing and toning, old central verical fold line, mild creasing at upper left corner and right edge; verso with a later manuscript note in pencil ‘Please [xxxxx] without fail for W. …

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  • Winged fairy with bubbles

    # 25570

    GAZE, Harold (1884-1963)

    Winged fairy with bubbles

    Watercolour and pen on card, 340 x 248 mm, signed lower left and dated 1929, in contemporary silk mount. An exquisite original watercolour with vivid blue background by one of the masters of the fairy art genre. Harold Gaze was born in New Zealand in 1884 and studied at art school in London during the …

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  • A group of humorous sketches by an Australian soldier, 1939-45.

    # 23415

    Anon.

    A group of humorous sketches by an Australian soldier, 1939-45.

    Pen and wash on faint-ruled paper, occupying 7 sides of 4 sheets removed from a notebook, with the artist’s captions in pen; a well-preserved group. The sketches depict scenes from the life of an Aussie soldier during military training.

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  • The world

    # 20853

    THOMPSON, Henry Augustus

    The world

    [England] : Henry A[ugustus] Thompson, December 7th 1855. 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 on Mercator’s projection, with detailed decorative border and original hand …

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  • The world

    # 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. …

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  • Cultural transaction [with] Towla

    # 18751

    HITTI, Deanna

    Cultural transaction [with] Towla

    An extraordinary collection of works by contemporary Melbourne artist Deanna Hitti, comprising her artist’s book Towla and two monumental wall pieces titled Cultural Transaction. Towla [Melbourne] : the artist, 2017. Folio, screenprinted buckram, screenprinted endpapers, pp. 40; [8]; 40; screenprinted on Somerset 115gsm Bookwove paper, housed in a screenprinted clamshell box. Limited to 10 copies plus three …

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  • Photograph of an oil painting of Strath Creek Falls, near Broadford, Victoria, circa 1880.

    # 17134

    RIDER, Andrew (& Co.)

    Photograph of an oil painting of Strath Creek Falls, near Broadford, Victoria, circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph of an oil painting, cabinet card format, 165 x 107 mm, recto of mount imprinted ‘Rider & Co., Williamstown’; verso with contemporary inscription in ink ‘Strath Creek Falls, Paintted [sic] By C. Brown / Near Broadford’; in fine condition. The picturesque Strath Creek Falls, which are located between Broadford and Yea, northeast of …

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  • [MELBOURNE] Besses Banquet, Vienna Café, 20 July 1911.

    # 14719

    [VIENNA CAFE]

    [MELBOURNE] Besses Banquet, Vienna Café, 20 July 1911.

    Pen and ink illustration and calligraphy with onlaid silver gelatin photograph, on thin card, 420 x 200 mm (sheet); a few light marks around the upper edges, otherwise fine condition. A significant piece of ephemera from one of Melbourne’s most famous dining establishments of the 1890s and early 1900s, the Vienna Café, which occupied the …

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  • Original fabric design by Sonia Delaunay for haute-couture textile supplier Robert Perrier

    # 13836

    DELAUNAY, Sonia (1885-1979)

    Original fabric design by Sonia Delaunay for haute-couture textile supplier Robert Perrier

    Circa 1942. Gouache on paper, 260 x 180 mm; numbered by the artist in pencil at upper right “167/2”; framed; accompanied by a copy of a typed document by Sonia Delaunay (circa 1972) recording her sale of a total of 1,244 gouache fabric designs to M. Robert Perrier, 26 rue Norvins, Paris, 75018, in 1942; …

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  • Original fabric design by Sonia Delaunay for haute-couture textile supplier Robert Perrier

    # 13834

    DELAUNAY, Sonia (1885-1979)

    Original fabric design by Sonia Delaunay for haute-couture textile supplier Robert Perrier

    Circa 1942. Gouache on paper, 205 x 260 mm; initialled by the artist in pencil at lower left “S.D.”; wet stamp of the Robert Perrier Sonia Delaunay collection on reverse; framed; accompanied by a copy of a typed document by Sonia Delaunay (circa 1972) recording her sale of a total of 1,244 gouache fabric designs …

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  • Album of humorous pen and ink sketches

    # 13660

    "R.T."

    Album of humorous pen and ink sketches

    [United Kingdom : “R.T.”, circa 1890]. Square octavo album, 180 x 155 mm, blind embossed green cloth boards lettered in gilt “Scrap Album”; front hinge split; recto of first leaf with pen and ink sketch bearing the owner-artist’s initials “R.T.” on an artist’s palette; containing [20] pen and ink sketches and one watercolour on the rectos …

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