Australian Art April 2025
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# 26150
BOND, Anthony
Ken Unsworth
Sydney : Artand Foundation, 2018. Quarto, cloth bound boards, pp. 252, extensively illustrated, fold out plates. Sculptor, installation and performance artist,Unsworth was born in 1931 in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. Despite growing up as a self-described typical Melbourne kid who loved football, trams and a beer, Unsworth has become one of Australia’s most significant …
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# 33358
RONE
Rone
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson, 2020. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 240, illustrated. Fine copy of an out of print title. ‘Known for his multi-storey murals gracing buildings all over the world, Melbourne-based artist Rone uses his work to explore the friction and connection between beauty and decay, youth and ruin. Rone was a seminal …
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# 33016
PEARCE, Barry
Jeffrey Smart
Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2011. Revised edition, first published in 2005. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 272, fully illustrated, dustjacket with light handling marks, else a fine copy. The best and most comprehensive monograph on the great Australian realist.
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# 31131
KYU-IL, Choi; BALL, Sydney; BAINES, Robert
Traces : Australia-Korea – Korea-Australia : a book of paintings, prints and calligraphies
Townsville: Lyre Bird Press and Melbourne : Zimmer Editions, 2001. Quarto, blindstamped folding clamshell box containing three folios in gilt-lettered hand made paper wrappers; the first being an introduction to the project and the artists; the second containing two original signed paintings by Sydney Ball; the third containing two original signed woodcuts and a caligraphic …
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# 32289
MARSH, Dale
The art of Dale Marsh (with original drawing)
Sydney : Dale Marsh Studio, 1981. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (lightly marked), 29pp [75pp of plates]. Features 75 colour plates in addition to biographical essays and a tipped in sketch . Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the artist with an original signed drawing tipped on to the half-title.
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# 32542
SCARDAMAGLIA, Amanda
Printed on Stone : the lithographs of Charles Troedel.
Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2020. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 256, illustrated with more than 70 colour prints from the Troedel archive, plus full reproduction of all 24 plates of The Melbourne Album (lithographic views of Melbourne from 1863–1864) plus select images from the New South Wales Album (1878). New copy. This book is the first to …
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# 32484
[EARLE]. HACKFORTH-JONES, Jocelyn
Augustus Earle : travel artist (New Zealand edition)
: paintings and drawings in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. Waiura, Martinborough, New Zealand : Alister Taylor, 1980. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dustjacket (slightly sunned), pp. 155, previous owner’s name to endpaper, illustrated throughout with both colour and black & white reproductions of the artist’s works, introduction by G. Chandler, …
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# 32418
[BLACKMAN]. SHAPCOTT, Thomas.
The art of Charles Blackman
London: Andre Deutsch, 1989. Folio, cloth in dustjacket, 266 pages profusely illustrated in colour. The major monograph on the artist. A fine copy.
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# 32186
YANG, William
Starting again : a time in the life of William Yang (signed presentation copy with original photograph)
Melbourne : Heinemann, 1989. Oblong quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 122, illustrated. Presentation inscription ‘To John, wishing you all the best with your documentary, William Yang Bondi 1997’. “In this, his second book, William Yang takes us into his personal orbit, showing us pictures of the people and places that have marked new beginnings in …
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# 32154
AGEE, Joyce and BENNETT, David
The thousand mile stare : a photographic exhibition
Curated by Joyce Agee ; edited by David Bennett. Melbourne : The Victorian Centre for Photography Inc., 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (by Robert Ashton), pp. 118, illustrated, previous owner’s name to endpaper. The thousand mile stare was a Victorian Centre for Photography bicentennial project that comprised a survey exhibition of photographic practice from the last 25 years. The …
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# 31897
ASHTON, Robert (1950 - )
‘Into the hollow mountains’ – photographs by Robert Ashton (signed copy)
Text edited by Mark Gillespie. Melbourne : Outback Press, 1974. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers (edges rubbed, light surface wear, small area of mousing to edge of upper wrapper and extreme margin of a few leaves), pp. 96, a few light marks, previous owner’s name to title page, a good copy. Signed by Robert Ashton on …
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# 31929
SCHALLER, Mark
Mark Schaller : Botanicus fantasticus (signed copy)
Melbourne : Fox Galleries, 2020. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with wraparound band, pp. 64, illustrated. Foreword by Helen Hughes, essay by Rebecca Agnew. Signed by the artist on the title page. The first volume in the Modern Seasons series of publications. Modern Seasons is a publication series presenting a portrait of the four seasons. The four-part publication …
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# 31851
JANSONS, Ivar
Ivars Jansons : oils and watercolours (signed copy)
Adelaide : the artist, 1988. Quarto, illustrated boards (bumped at corners and at head of spine), pp. 12; 30 tipped-in coloured plates. Signed by the artist on the title page.
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# 31268
ANGEL, Anita
John Firth-Smith : from here to there
Sydney : Press 8, 2006. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 192, illustrated. As new copy, sealed in shrinkwrap. Comprising of two parts, this monograph first locates Firth-Smith’s working practices, aiming to provide a broad historical setting, beyond the purely biographical, and provides a critical appreciation of the artist’s work, not an analysis of the man.
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# 31214
OPPEN, Monica; LYSSIOTIS, Peter (illustrator)
Case : Angel Ryan
[Petersham, N.S.W.] : Ant Press, 2012. Second edition, limited to 50 copies. (The first edition, 2011, was limited to only 5 copies). Quarto, pictorial wrappers, unpaginated, illustrations by Peter Lyssiotis; a fine copy. A response to the topic of sexual crimes against women. Three copies are held in Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State …
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# 31195
GARDNER, Kerry
Australia at the Venice Biennale : a century of contemporary art. (Signed copy)
Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2021. Quarto, laminated boards reproducing a painting by Howard Arkley, pp. 262, extensively illustrated. New copy, signed by the author. With works from Sidney Nolan, Howard Arkley and more, this richly illustrated work illuminates the untold stories and origins of the most important event of the art world. Before the winds …