Australian Art April 2025
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# 46918
[NAMATJIRA]. HARDY, Jane, MEGAW, J.V.S., and MEGAW, M. Ruth
The Heritage of Namatjira. The Watercolourists of Central Australia.
Melbourne : Heinemann, 1992. Large octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xxii; 350, illustrated in colour, spine sunned, light handling wear, previous owner’s name to half-title. The primary reference work on the Hermannsburg school. A good copy of a title which is out of print and quite scarce.
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# 46917
GRISHIN, Sasha
S.T. Gill & his audiences
Canberra, ACT ; [Melbourne] : National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 255, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia’s most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised ‘Marvellous …
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# 46877
[CARRICK, Ethel]. ZUBANS, Ruth
Ethel Carrick (Mrs. E. Phillips Fox)
A retrospective exhibition. Geelong, Victoria : Geelong Art Gallery, 1979. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with 57 plates in black & white, catalogue for the travelling retrospective exhibition of the works of Ethel Carrick [Carrick Fox].
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# 46876
DUTTON, Geoffrey
Paintings of S. T. Gill
With an introduction and commentaries by Geoffrey Dutton. Adelaide : Rigby, 1962. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, pp. 12; twelve tipped in colour plates, glassine wrapper.
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# 46875
MESSENGER, Jane
Patricia Piccinini : once upon a time
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2011. Folio, illustrated boards in plastic carry case (light handling wear), pp. 148, illustrated. Surveys the career of one of Australia’s pre-eminent contemporary artists. This is the first major book on Piccinini and is designed to reflect the scale and detail of her varied practice. Published on the occasion …
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# 46896
PERKINS, Hetti et al.
One Sun One Moon : Aboriginal Art in Australia
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 368, illustrated. This copy is still sealed in the publisher’s shrink-wrap, but it has a small amount of loss at the foot of the spine where perhaps it was dropped, and as such is sold as a reference copy. ‘Aboriginal art …
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# 46895
TAYLOR, Elena
Grace Crowley : being modern
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2006. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated, previous owner’s name to half-title, a fine copy. .
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# 46848
LONG, Anna and NODRUM, Charles
The changing face of Melbourne 1841 – 1993
Melbourne : Charles Nodrum Gallery and Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated. Invitation card and price list enclosed.
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# 46849
NOLAN, Sidney
Sidney Nolan. Works on paper from the ’60s and ’70s : mixed media paintings, lithographs and screenprints.
Melbourne : Bridget McDonnell Gallery, 1997. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, folded card, three panels, pp. [6], illustrated. Price list enclosed.
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# 46851
JAMES, Rodney
Aspendale Beach : an artists’ haven
Mornington : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, wraparound banner, one corner creased, pp. 54, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 650 copies.
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# 46868
CANNING, Criss
Criss Canning
October 19th – October 29th 1989. Melbourne Art Exchange. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers, unpaginated, 28 colour plates a fine copy.
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# 46894
KERR, Joan
The dictionary of Australian artists
Painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992. First edition. Thick quarto, boards in dustjacket, slight corner wear, pp. 889, extensively illustrated. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian artists. A fine copy. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian art, with much information not found online.
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# 46893
BUSCOMBE, Eve
Artists in early Australia and their portraits : a guide to the portrait painters of early Australia with special reference to colonial New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land to 1850.
With detailed biographies, catalogues of works and sources of Australian portraiture. Sydney : Eureka Research, 1978. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, light handling marks, unpaginated (approx. 500 pages), illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. An encyclopaedic publication.
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# 46892
HAESE, Richard
Permanent revolution : Mike Brown and the Australian avant-garde 1953-1997
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2011. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light sunning to spine, pp. 297, illustrated. As the only Australian artist to have been successfully prosecuted for obscenity, Mike Brown is considered one of Australia’s most controversial figures. This captivating book offers a comprehensive account of this outspoken artist’s life and work. Brown’s imitation realism …
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# 46891
HART, Deborah
Joy Hester and Friends
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 136, illustrated. Detailed monograph from a major survey exhibition.
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# 46889
[SEPTIMUS POWER, Harold]. MIDDLETON, Max
The art of H. Septimus Power
Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1974. Quarto, cloth covered boards with illustrated dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 121, occasional light foxing, owner’s label to title page, richly illustrated throughout with 46 colour plates and 8 black & white plates of the artist’s paintings. A good copy.