Australian Art April 2025

  • Brett Whiteley : art & life (presentation copy from Barry Pearce and Wendy Whiteley)

    # 35411

    [WHITELEY]. PEARCE, Barry, ROBERTSON, Bryan and WHITELEY, Wendy.

    Brett Whiteley : art & life (presentation copy from Barry Pearce and Wendy Whiteley)

    Sydney : The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995 (reprinted 2004). Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 240, contains 180 colour and 40 monochrome plates, foreword by Edmund Capon, text by Bryan Robertson, Barry Pearce and an interview between Barry Pearce and Wendy Whiteley. A very good copy. This copy inscribed from Barry Pearce ‘For …

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  • [Sketchbook] (deluxe limited edition with original drawing)

    # 35191

    LISTER, Anthony (1979 - )

    [Sketchbook] (deluxe limited edition with original drawing)

    [Melbourne : Black Art Projects, 2013]. Oblong octavo (145 x 213 mm) black cloth bound boards, pp. [192], reproducing drawings from Anthony Lister’s sketchbooks from 2002 – 2012. The deluxe edition, additionally signed by the artist and limited to 100 copies, containing an original small signed pencil drawing or a rose, signed and dated 2013, and …

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  • More old Tasmanian prints : a companion volume to The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land and Old Tasmanian prints.

    # 35221

    CRAIG, Clifford

    More old Tasmanian prints : a companion volume to The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land and Old Tasmanian prints.

    Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1984. Edition limited to 1000 copies (no. 444). Large octavo, fine pictorial cloth boards in like dust jacket, colour frontispiece plate, 389 pp, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, a fine copy.

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  • The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land

    # 35144

    CRAIG, Clifford

    The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land

    Launceston : Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards (lightly marked), x, 172 pp, illustrated with black and white plates, a very good copy.  

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  • Old Tasmanian prints : prepared in Great Britain, Europe and on the mainland of Australia

    # 35143

    CRAIG, Clifford

    Old Tasmanian prints : prepared in Great Britain, Europe and on the mainland of Australia

    Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1964. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards, colour frontispiece, xii, 349 pp, illustrated with 81 plates (7 colour), endpapers slightly browned, a very good copy.

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  • Notes on Tasmania

    # 35142

    CRAIG, Clifford

    Notes on Tasmania

    Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1986. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies (no. 106). Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards in dust jacket, xvii, 324 pp, illustrated with 45 plates (some colour); light foxing to edges and preliminaries, light tape marks to endpapers, a very good copy with the scarce prospectus loosely enclosed.

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  • John Dowie : a life in the round (signed copy)

    # 35130

    DOWIE, John (1915 - 2008) and LOCK-WEIR, Tracey

    John Dowie : a life in the round (signed copy)

    Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2001. Quarto, silver-lettered leather bound boards, pp. 88, illustrated in colour throughout. New copy. Limited edition, signed by John Dowie and Tracey Lock-Weir. John Dowie: A life in the round celebrates eight decades of artistic achievement by a great Australian sculptor, painter and writer. Creator of such popular and significant public sculptures …

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  • Timber

    # 13686

    WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris; LETI, Bruno; KING, Inge; KING, Grahame

    Timber

    New York and Melbourne : Raphael Fodde Editions, 1998. Folio, 515mm tall, spraypainted hessian over boards, pp. 34, five folded sections of eight leaves, with two linocuts by Inge King, two lithographs by Grahame King, and two etchings by Bruno Leti, each signed and numbered, a fine example. A magnificent large format artist’s book with …

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  • Jeffrey Smart : paintings and studies 2002 - 2003 (signed copy)

    # 33956

    [SMART, Jeffrey] GRISHIN, Sasha.

    Jeffrey Smart : paintings and studies 2002 – 2003 (signed copy)

    Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 52, illustrated in colour. Signed and inscribed by Smart on the title page, a fine copy.

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  • The art of John Kauffmann (signed presentation copy for Elsie F. Barlow)

    # 34727

    KAUFFMANN, John (1864-1942)

    The art of John Kauffmann (signed presentation copy for Elsie F. Barlow)

    Twenty illustrations in half-tone, with Biography and Essay by Leslie H. Beer. Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, 1919. Limited edition of 500 copies, signed by the artist. Folio, printed green card wrappers (a few marks and short edge tears) over boards, endpapers (lightly foxed),18 pp, with 20 pp of plates. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by …

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  • Jesse Marlow – Second City

    # 34628

    MARLOW, Jesse

    Jesse Marlow – Second City

    Melbourne : Sling Shot Press, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 96, illustrated. New copy. Printed in an edition of 900 copies. ‘When I was at photography school, every few weeks our photojournalism teacher would send the class off into the city on “Citywalks”. With an otherwise open brief, our only task was to keep an …

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  • Margaret Woodward

    # 34229

    FRY, Gavin; KLEPAC, Lou

    Margaret Woodward

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2020. Revised edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 310 x 250 mm., pp. 168, 102 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and photographs. The softcover edition. Margaret Woodward is recognised as a distinctly original artist. Winner of the Wynne Prize, and many other awards. This book explains how her highly …

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  • Point to Point. The art of Tim Storrier (presentation copy for Robert and Julienne Jacks)

    # 29270

    [STORRIER]. VAN NUNEN, Linda.

    Point to Point. The art of Tim Storrier (presentation copy for Robert and Julienne Jacks)

    Sydney: Craftsman House, 1987. Quarto, boards in dust jacket (the laminate lightly lifting), 174pp. profusely illustrated, faint foxing to extremities. Presentation inscription on the title page ‘For dear Bob & Julienne – after a lunch on 8 – 3 – 00 – Storrier’. A fine presentation copy from one significant Australian painter to his friend, …

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  • The photograph and Australia

    # 34196

    ANNEAR, Judy

    The photograph and Australia

    Sydney : Art Gallery New South Wales, 2015. Quarto, illustrated boards with glassine dust jacket. “From its beginnings in the 19th century to today’s digital revolution, The photograph and Australia investigates how photography was harnessed to create the idea of a nation. It reveals how Australia’s view of the world and itself has been changed …

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  • The Burden of Tyre. Fifteen poems by Christopher Brennan. Etchings by Lionel Lindsay.

    # 33528

    [LINDSAY, Lionel]. BRENNAN, Christopher.

    The Burden of Tyre. Fifteen poems by Christopher Brennan. Etchings by Lionel Lindsay.

    Sydney: privately printed by Harry Chaplin, 1953. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (marked), dustjacket (light water stains), unpaginated, tipped-in etched portrait of Brennan by Lionel Lindsay, signed and numbered, text in letterpress and reproduction of manuscript, tipped-in plate. Limited to 300 copies signed by Harry Chaplin.

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  • David Larwill (signed by author and artist)

    # 33499

    McGREGOR, Ken.

    David Larwill (signed by author and artist)

    With Elizabeth Thomson. Sydney : Craftsman House, 1997. Quarto, hardcover in dustjacket, 204 pp. illustrated throughout. The major monograph on Larwill. This copy signed and inscribed by the artist and the author. A fine copy.

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