Australian Art April 2025
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# 39604
CRAWFORD, Ashley
The Paul Guest collection
Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2019. Quarto, embossed cloth, illustrated endpapers (both reproducing the works of Robert Jacks), pp. 288, extensively illustrated. Contributions by Doug Hall, Ashley Crawford, Kirsty Grant, John Harry and Jessica Bridgfoot. ‘Celebrating the gift of his collection to Bendigo Art Gallery, this exhibition showcases the extraordinary generosity of the Honourable Paul …
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# 39069
MARSHALL, Stephen
The watercolours of Blamire Young (deluxe edition)
Sydney : Meridian, 2013. Quarto, pictorial laminated boards in matching slipcase (slightly marked). pp. 648, fully illustrated. The definitive volume on the master of Australian watercolour painting. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by the author, including a signed limitation sheet with a postage stamp featuring Blamire Young. Blamire Young (1862-1935) is represented …
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# 39114
[HINDER]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin.
Frank Hinder : Lithographs (deluxe edition, with an original lithograph by Frank Hinder)
and an introduction by John Henshaw. Researched and edited by Lin Bloomfield. Sydney: Odana Editions, 1978. Folio, original maroon cloth (spine a little faded) in matching slipcase (rubbed), 156 pp, fully illustrated with Hinder lithographs. Limited to 155 copies of which 140 are for sale, signed and numbered by the artist (this is copy no. …
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# 39065
[ZOFREA]. CLAIRE, Stephanie and WALDMANN, Anna.
Salvatore Zofrea.
Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1983. Quarto, half-leather over linen in cloth slipcase, 142 pp, illustrated throughout. The collector’s edition, limited to two hundred copies signed by the artist, with two original signed etchings, Vespers at Assisi and Sermon to the Birds, bound in, printed by the artist especially for this book.
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# 39056
[NOLAN]. OSBORNE, Charles.
Swansong.
London: Shenval Press, 1968. Quarto, brown boards with black backstrip, brown endpapers, original glassine wrapper, twelve Osborne poems each with corresponding Nolan black and white illustration, additional colour Nolan plate. Limited to 500 copies, of which 150 are signed by author and artist. This is one of the 150 signed copies. A fine copy.
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# 38866
McGREGOR, Ken; JACKS, Robert
Robert Jacks. Past unfolded (presentation copy with two original drawings)
Sydney: Craftsman House 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, spine sunned, 168 pp. profusely illustrated. Signed by the artist, with a presentation inscription from Robert Jacks with two small pen drawings. The first major monograph on Jacks.
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# 38835
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
The etchings of Norman Lindsay
London : Constable & Co., 1927. Folio, gilt-lettered blue buckram (a little marked, spine faded, lower corner bumped), top edge gilt, 45 leaves of plates with accompanying title leaf, each a fine photogravure reproduction of a Norman Lindsay etching, occasional foxing. Limited to 129 copies of which 120 were for sale, signed and numbered by …
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# 38802
LINDSAY, Norman.
The Flyaway Highway
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1936. First edition. Large octavo, Lindsay decorated papered boards (some light fading), 120pp., occasional light scattered foxing (as usual), with numerous Lindsay illustrations. First edition of Lindsay’s second children’s book, the first being The Magic Pudding.
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# 38575
[HENSON, Bill]
Lux et nox (signed copy)
Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 2008. Oblong folio, boards in illustrated dust jacket, unpaginated, 173 colour plates, first Australian edition, first published by Scalo, Zurich in 2002, new copy. A large format survey of Henson’s famous lyrical photographs. Fine condition. Out of print. Signed by Bill Henson on a Thames and Hudson bookplate, issued by …
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# 38651
RAINBIRD, Stephen
William Robinson. Paintings and lithographs 2000 – 2007 (signed presentation copy)
Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 84, illustrated, including foldout plates. Price list enclosed This copy with a signed inscription in gold pen from William Robinson to noted art collectors Colin and Liz Laverty.
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# 37871
GAYNOR, Andrew (editor)
Tony Woods : an archive
editor: Andrew Gaynor ; introduction: Tony Woods ; essays: Lesley Chow, Phil Edwards, Sheridan Palmer, Alex Selenitsch, Gary Willis, Jake Wilson. Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, 2013. Quarto, illustrated boards, plastic wrapper, pp. 235, illustrated. DVD included. Tony Woods was one of Australia’s most exciting young artists in the late 1960s. Originally from …
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# 38585
[BLACKMAN]. AMADIO, Nadine
The lost domains (deluxe edition)
Sydney : Reed, 1980. Deluxe edition. Large folio, leather-bound boards (lightly scuffed) with gilt lettering and illustration to cover and inlaid contrasting leather with gilt title on spine, pp. 144, limited to 150 copies with loosely inserted limited edition lithograph by Charles Blackman. Magnificently illustrated with Blackman’s paintings of his most famous series, including Alice …
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# 38505
RIENITS, Rex and Thea
Early artists of Australia
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), patterned endpapers,, pp. x; 246, illustrated. A good copy. A valuable survey of the first European artworks of the Australian continent, including chapters on Cook’s artists, the First Fleet, Thomas Watling, William Westall, John William Lewin, George William Evans, early Tasmanian …
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# 38446
Josef Lebovic Gallery
Masterpieces of Australian photography
Edited by Josef Lebovic and Joanne Cahill with the assistance of Suzette Cooke. Sydney : Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling wear, pp. 200, illustrated. A scholarly catalogue of historical Australian photography c. 1850s – 1980s.
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# 38224
[FRIEND]. ENNIS, Henry.
Remarks on board His Majesty’s ship Tamar;
in a voyage from England to Port Praia, Cape of Good Hope – New South Wales. Melbourne: Richard Griffin, 1983. Small folio, quarter-calf in dustjacket, 34 pp. (deckled-edged), title-page and frontispiece illustrated by Friend, Foreword by Kenneth Hince. Limited to 160 copies.
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# 37572
DEVENPORT, Rhana
Judith Wright : conversations
New Plymouth, New Zealand : Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ; Brisbane, Qld : Judith Wright, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 137, illustrated. Summary : ‘How to trace twenty years of practice? Eighty seasons of thinking and making have unfolded thus far for Judith Wright. Her practice hovers in an uncomfortable space between singular urgency and …