Australian Art April 2025
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# 42371
JOHNSON, Heather
Roy de Maistre. The Australian Years 1894 – 1930 (from the library of Criss Canning)
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1988. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (laminate lifting), pp. 138, illustrated in colour throughout. The main scholarly text on this period of De Maistre’s career, including a list of exhibitions, bibliography and biography. Signed by Criss Canning in ink on the half-title Provenance: Criss Canning, acquired in 2023
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# 41847
JOHNSON, Robert
The paintings of Robert Johnson (deluxe edition with drawing)
Sydney : The Legend Press, Folio, gilt-decorated full grey morocco, pp. [xviii]; 18 colour plates, housed in publisher’s cardboard box with paper title label. Biographical note by John Brackenreg. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by the artist with an original signed drawing tipped-in, this drawings titled ‘Near Kiewa, Vic.’.
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# 28520
BUTLER, Roger
Alan Sumner screenprints
Melbourne : Eastgate Gallery, 1993. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers (light crease), pp. 99, illustrated. A catalogue based on the collection in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
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# 41850
ALBRECHT, Kurt
Nineteenth century Australian gold & silver smiths
Melbourne : Hutchinson Australia, 1969. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly marked), pp. 69, light foxing to preliminaries, illustrated.
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# 28995
URE SMITH, Sydney and BERTIE, Charles
Old colonial by-ways (deluxe edition, presentation copy)
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards (somewhat sunned and flecked), essay, 55 plates (some in colour, tipped-in), the deluxe edition, limited to 40 copies, with an original signed by Ure Smith. Presentation copy with signed inscription from Sydney Ure Smith to Maie Casey, dated 1940. Rare.
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# 25002
LETI, Bruno
The enclosed garden
Thirty mixed media drawings 1985 – 1990. Melbourne : the artist, 1998. Octavo, quarter-cloth with papered boards, introduction by Bob Garlick, colour photographs of Leti’s paintings. Limited to 15 copies signed and numbered by the artist. An intimate series of landscape paintings aligned with Leti’s other work ‘Studio emblems’. Held in three Australian collections : …
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# 13695
LETI, Bruno; STEELE, Professor Peter
Intersections. Photographs from the series the cross and the matrix
Melbourne : the artist, 2006. Small quarto, card wrappers with blind etched covers, unpaginated, essay by Peter Steele, eight original c-type photograph by the artist tipped-in. Limited to 15 signed copies.
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# 13697
LETI, Bruno
The square and the rectangle. Paintings and drawings 2016.
Melbourne : the artist, 2016. Quarto, card wrappers, unpaginated, documenting a series of abstract works focussing on rectangular shapes. Limited to 10 copies signed by the artist.
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# 23994
LETI, Bruno (1941 - )
The sky is the limit. Bruno Leti paintings and photographs.
Melbourne : the artist, 2017. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 102, fully illustrated. An artist’s book by Leti on the theme of the sky and clouds, all photographs and paintings by the artist. Limited to 75 signed and numbered copies.
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# 30563
LETI Bruno (1941 - ); PESSOA, Fernando (1888 - 1935)
Pessoa : a dedication by Bruno Leti
Melbourne : the artist, circa 2018. Octavo, printed gatefold wrappers, unpaginated, text from the great Portuguese modernist poet Pessoa, illustrated by Bruno Leti. Edition of 50 numbered and signed copies. ‘This dedication to Fernando Pessoa is an expression of my wonder and delight at his poetry and prose, which has nourished me over many years …
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# 41515
SHIRLOW, John A. T.
Perspective : a text book for the use of schools and colleges (signed copy)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 1932. Oblong quarto, lettered cloth (small stain, corners rubbed), small owner’s name to pastedown, errata slip (offsetting), corner cut to front free endpaper, signed by Shirlow on the title page, pp. xii; 103, diagrams and illustrations, occasional light foxing, a very good copy. Text boo for student artists by noted Melbourne artist …
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# 41449
BRUCE, J. F.
The art of Blamire Young
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1921. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards, pp. 38, plus 36 tipped-in colour plates, in the original presentation box (edges rubbed, tear to one edge). A very good copy.
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# 41227
PHILIPP, Franz; BOYD, Arthur
Arthur Boyd. (Deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)
With 44 colour plates and 134 monochrome plates. London : Thames and Hudson, 1967. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, in gilt-lettered clamshell box, bookplate to pastedown, 288 pp., extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 107 numbered copies (100 available for sale), with an original hand-mounted and signed lithograph by Arthur Boyd titled Nebuchadnezzar on fire. A …
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# 41337
SMART, Jeffrey (1921 - 2013)
Not quite straight (Signed copy)
Melbourne : William Heinemann Australia, 1996. Large octavo, boards with dust jacket, 464 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Memoirs from one of Australia’s foremost artists working in precisionist depictions of urban landscapes. Signed by artist on title page.
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# 40599
HART, Kevin Charles 'Pro'
Poems of Henry Lawson. Volume two (signed with small pencil drawing)
Sydney : Ure Smith, 1975. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 64, illustrated in colour. Signed and inscribed by Pro Hart on the endpaper to Kym and Julie Bonython with a signed pencil drawing titled ‘Outback’.
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# 40587
AMADIO, Nadine
Orpheus : the song of forever (deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)
Sydney: The Craftsman’s Press, 1983. Quarto, decorated cloth in slipcase, 128pp., illustrated with numerous tipped-in plates by Charles Blackman, fine. Limited to 250 copies signed by author and artist with an original signed lithograph loosely inserted. One of the finest Blackman illustrated publications, a loosely enclosed review by Barrett Reid reads: ‘It is the “Orpheus” …