Australian Art April 2025
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# 46919
GRANT, Kirsty
In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts
Melbourne : NGV, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. A very good copy. Includes artworks by Violet Teague, Margaret Preston, Ethel Powers, Helen Ogilvie, Geraldine Rede, Lionel Lindsay, Thea Proctor, Sybil Craig, Noel Counihan, Eric Thake, Bea Maddock, Dorrit Black and others.
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# 46727
CROMBIE, Isobel et a.
Brave New World. Australia 1930s
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, corners a little bumped, small mark to endpaper, pp. 198, extensively illustrated. Includes works by Albert Tucker, Percy Leason, Daniel Vassilieff, Noel Counihan, Max Dupain, Dorothy Thornhill, Fred Ward, Sybil Craig, William Ricketts, Margaret Preston, Arthur Murch, Elioth Gruner, Freda Robertshaw, Albert Namatjira, Lionel Lindsay …
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# 46821
SMITH, Jason
Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print
Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Edges lightly rubbed, a very good copy. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. Quickly sold out. ‘This exceptionally beautiful Geelong Gallery-curated exhibition will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell …
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# 46854
[PERCEVAL]. McGREGOR, Ken
Fifty Years of Perceval Drawings (deluxe edition)
Sydney, Bay Books, 1989. Folio, gilt-lettered leather, illustrated slipcase, 256 pages illustrated with Perceval’s work throughout. Limited to 100 copies signed by Perceval, the deluxe edition in superior binding and slipcase.
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# 46622
McCAHON, Colin; GASCOIGNE, Rosalie
Rosalie Gascoigne / Colin McCahon : sense of place
Sydney : Ivan Dougherty Gallery and Melbourne : The Ian Potter Gallery, 1990. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, lightly marked, pp. 64, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held “on the occasion of the Sesquicentenary of New Zealand, 1990”. Scarce.
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# 46869
FINUCANE, Paul and STUART, Catherine
Odd roads to be walking. 156 women who shaped Australian Art
Sydney : Sheila Foundation, 2019 (2023 reprint). Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. ”It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting’ …..so wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journeys of many artists can be described as ‘odd roads’, few were as original …
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# 46707
SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)
Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)
With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, slight sunning to spine, pp. 162, illustrated. A very good copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists …
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# 46680
GRISHIN, Sasha et al.
Baldessin/Whiteley : parallel visions
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2018. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, a few light marks, pp. x; 202, illustrated. A fine copy. Published for the exhibition Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions at NGV Australia, Melbourne, 31 August, 2018 – 28 January, 2019. Born forty-two days apart in 1939, Australian artists George Baldessin and Brett Whiteley had much …
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# 46234
NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA
The Field
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1968. Folio, plain white card wrappers with die-cut title (lightly stained, wear to spine and edges), 94pp., extensively illustrated. Catalogue for the exhibition held 21 August – 28 September, 1968. A couple of light creases, previous owner’s name on first page. The seminal exhibition of twentieth century abstraction in Australia, …
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# 46692
OLSEN, John; DURACK, Mary; DUTTON, Geoffrey; SERVENTY; Vincent; BORTIGNON, Alex
The Land beyond time : a modern exploration of Australia’s north-west frontiers. (signed copy with original pen drawing)
With Mary Durack, Geoffrey Dutton, Vincent Serventy and Alex Bortignon. Melbourne : Macmillan, 1984. Folio, boards in dust jacket, 312 pp, fully illustrated; a very good copy. This copy signed and inscribed John Olsen and his then-wife Noel Hjorth also adding an original pen drawing of a pelican plunging its beak into the pond where …
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# 46691
LANE, Terence; SEARLE, Jessie
Australians at home : a documentary history of Australian domestic interiors from 1788 to 1914
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 449, extensively illustrated. A very good copy. “This study of Australian home interiors surveys the decoration, arrangement, and use of domestic interiors from the time the Europeans settled at Sydney Cove in the eighteenth century until 1914. Richly illustrated with over 500 …
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# 46520
PULLIN, Ruth
Eugene von Guerard. Nature revealed
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 302, extensively illustrated, a fine copy.
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# 46764
HEYSEN, Hans
Hans Heysen. Watercolours and drawings (signed and inscribed copy, with the original illustrated prospectus)
Text by Sir Lionel Lindsay and James S. MacDonald. Sydney : The Legend Press, c. 1952. Oblong folio, boards in dustjacket (a little edge wear), light offsetting to endpapers, 26 plates, signed by Hans Heysen on the endpaper ‘Yours very sincerely, Hans Heysen, Hahndorf Sept. 26th 1958’. Loosely enclosed : original prospectus with specimen plate, …
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# 46712
PRESTON, Margaret
Margaret Preston’s Lectures on art. Contained within Art in Australia, third series, number seventy-two.
Sydney : John Fairfax and Sons, August 1938. Quarto, original green wrappers, 80 pp. illustrated in colour and black and white, previous owner’s name to upper wrapper, a fine copy. Among the various articles and illustrations is a revised piece by Preston based on a series of lectures she gave at the Art Gallery of …
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# 46817
HOWARD, Ian (1947 - )
Action Man Story
Montreal : the artist, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a hint of foxing), 40pp. with offset lithographed photographic images and text throughout. An important early experimental artist’s book created by the Australian artist while completing a master’s degree in Canada. Like much of his work, this book draws on Howard background in the military, it is …
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# 46826
CANNING, Criss
Criss Canning : Instagram moments (from the library of Criss Canning)
Unpublished : the artist, 2020. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, approximately 160 pages, illustrated with photographs taken from the artist’s Instagram account, documenting her painting, home, garden and travels. Printed in an edition of 10 copies for family. A self-published book of reminiscences and inspiration created by Criss Canning during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia in …