Australian Art April 2025
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# 45079
KING, Inge; GRISHIN, Sasha
The art of Inge King : sculptor
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 392, extensively illustrated. A vast and informative monograph on the significant and influential sculptor. New copy.
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# 44343
HENSON, Bill
Bill Henson Photographs 1974 – 1984 (signed copy)
Introduction by David Malouf. Sydney: Pan Books, 1988. Folio, boards in dustjacket (lightly rubbed), numerous folding photographic plates, previous owner’s name to pastedown. A fine copy, signed by the artist on the front free endpaper. Fine Henson photography from the 70s and 80s.
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# 44436
UHL, Christopher
Albert Tucker
Melbourne : Lansdowne, 1969. Quarto boards in dustjacket, pp. 114, tipped-in plates, light handling marks, but a fine copy. The first major monograph on Tucker.
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# 44434
LYNTON, Norbert et al
Searching for Gaia : the art of Guy Warren
By Norbert Lynton & John McDonald ; Deborah Hart ; with an autobiographical account by the artist. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 192, illustrated. New copy of an out of print book. ‘Offers an artist’s view of life and art in Sydney during the better part of the 20th …
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# 44150
GREGORY, John
Carnival in Suburbia. The art of Howard Arkley
Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 2006. Folio, illustrated boards with acetate dustjacket, short tear to preliminary, pp. 214, extensively illustrated. A very good copy of a rare monograph. ‘When he died suddenly in Melbourne in July 1999, at the age of 48, Australian painter Howard Arkley had just achieved his greatest successes, receiving international critical …
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# 44123
TODD, Trevor; JUNIPER, Robert
Mason Judy (deluxe edition)
Illustrated by Robert Juniper. Sydney : Methuen, 1977. Quarto, quarter leather over cloth, illustrated slipcase (sunned), pp. [74], faint light foxing, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by artist and author, this copy signed by both but out of series. “Mason Judy is lonely and unhappy when his family move to a …
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# 44163
McKenzie, Janet
Contemporary Australian drawing #1
By Janet McKenzie ; with contributions by Irene Barberis and Christopher Heathcote. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2012. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 239, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. ‘Janet McKenzie visited Australia in 2008 to update her research and exercise a global perspective on the current state of drawing …
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# 44157
POSTLE, Bruce
Bruce Postle : the image maker (signed and inscribed copy)
Melbourne : Elm Grove Press, 2011. Oblong folio, illustrated laminated boards in slipcase, corners bumped, short split at head of spine, pp. xxvi; 374, extensively illustrated. Limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the photographer. A good copy. With a personalised inscription signed by Bruce Postle. The definitive collection of photography by one of Australia’s …
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# 43789
[EARLE]. HACKFORTH-JONES, Jocelyn
Augustus Earle : travel artist (Australian edition)
: paintings and drawings in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. Canberra : National Library of Australia 1980. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dustjacket (slightly discoloured)), pp. 155, presentation bookplate to endpaper, illustrated throughout with both colour and black & white reproductions of the artist’s works, introduction by G. Chandler, scholarly text …
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# 43694
HANSEN, David
John Glover and the Colonial picturesque
Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2003. Oblong quarto, pictorial laminated boards, pp. 312, extensively illustrated. A fine copy. On his first visit to Mills Plains, Glover wrote to Emma Lord: ‘I think we shall live principally here, it also suits me because very rich and Picturesque… I like the country much…’.’ A characteristic …
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# 43562
FREEMAN, Desmond
Venice : impressions in ink (deluxe edition)
By Desmond Freeman ; designed by Stephen Goddard. Bowral, New South Wales : Heritage Park Press, 2016. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 87, illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the artist, housed in an illustrated clamshell box, with a signed archival print by the artist loosely enclosed, limited to …
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# 43553
[BLACKMAN]. AMADIO, Nadine
The Lost Domains
Sydney: Reed, 1980. First edition. Large folio, boards in illustrated dust jacket, light foxing to endpapers and preliminaries, housed in a cloth slipcase, 144pp, magnificently illustrated with Blackman’s paintings of his most famous series, including Alice in Wonderland, Schoolgirls, Gardens, Nudes, Children Playing etc. An important monograph.
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# 42872
MOLLISON, James and BONHAM, Nicholas
Albert Tucker (deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)
Melbourne : Macmillan and Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1982. Quarto, gilt-lettered leather, glassine wrapper, buckram slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Albert Tucker, with an original signed colour lithograph loosely enclosed. This is copy number 78. A fine, clean copy of book and artwork.
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# 42362
STEWART, Meg (1948 - ); OLLEY, Margaret (1923 - 2011)
Margaret Olley: far from a still life (signed presentation copy for Criss Canning)
NSW : Random House Australia, 2005. Octavo, cloth covered boards, illustrated dust jacket (light handling marks and a short tear), slightly canted, illustrated end papers, signed and inscribed by Margaret Olley the title page, pp. 568, first edition of this biography on Olley written by Meg Stewart, illustrated with several colour and black & white …
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# 42784
HERBERT, Xavier (1901 - 1984); CROOKE, Ray (1922 - 2015)
Dream Road (deluxe edition with original Ray Crooke artwork)
Illustrated by Ray Crooke. Foreword by H. P. Hesseltine. Sydney : William Collins, 1977. Quarto, gilt-lettered quarter-lambskin over gilt-decorated cloth (spine sunned and discoloured, as often found), slipcase with colour illustrations (light foxing), illustrated endpapers, pp. 119, illustrated by Crooke. The deluxe edition, limited to 180 copies (150 for sale), specially bound, numbered by hand, …
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# 42774
HEATHCOTE, Abbie
The book of earthly delights. Living in the bush with Neil Douglas and Abbie Heathcote (signed copy with small drawings)
Birregurra [VIC] : Compendium Pty Ltd, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (creased), pp. xii, 132, illustrated in colour and black and white. This copy signed by both Neil and Abbie, with a whimsical pen drawing of a worm wearing a top hat, smiling a pipe blowing clouds of love hearts, a cup of tea perched on …