Australian Art April 2025

  • Aida Tomescu : Milky Way

    # 46790

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu : Milky Way

    Sydney : Liverpool Street Gallery, 2012. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated.

  • Aida Tomescu : Ravel

    # 46789

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu : Ravel

    Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 66, colour illustrations throughout.  Essay by Barry Pearce.

  • Aida Tomescu

    # 46788

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu

    Sydney : Martin Browne Fine Art, 2004. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue from exhibition running 12 October – 7 November 2004.

  • Dick Watkins : New Paintings 2003

    # 46787

    WATKINS, Dick

    Dick Watkins : New Paintings 2003

    Sydney : Liverpool Street Gallery, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated [pp. 28], 11 illustrations. List of solo and group exhibitions and selected bibliography.

  • Kevin Connor : harbour paintings, 1964-1987

    # 46786

    CONNOR, Kevin (1932 - )

    Kevin Connor : harbour paintings, 1964-1987

    Manly : Manly Art Gallery & Museum, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, illustrated.

  • Life's a beer

    # 46730

    ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)

    Life’s a beer

    Melbourne : Ross Books, 1984. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling marks) pp. 96, a very good copy. Ellis’ candid photographs of Australians with tinnies, stubbies, pots and schooners, middies, pints and slabs. Think Hawkie, Hoges and Sir Les Patterson.

  • Hans Heysen

    # 46781

    ANDREWS, Rebecca

    Hans Heysen

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated.  

  • Irreverent sculpture.

    # 46743

    PLANT, Margaret

    Irreverent sculpture.

    Melbourne : Monash University, 1985. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, includes works by Barry Humphries, Colin Lanceley, Mike Brown, Ross Crothall, Ti Parks, Clive Murray-White, Alexander Danko, Les Kossatz. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title.  

  • Charles Summers 1825 - 1878

    # 46744

    SUMMERS, Charles

    Charles Summers 1825 – 1878

    Weston-super-Mare : Woodspring Museum, 1978. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (marked), pp. [12], biography, catalogue of works, and list of holdings in England. Curator : Jane Evans. Catalogue of works by the British sculptor Charles Summers (1825-1878), who lived and worked in Melbourne between 1854 and 1867. Among Summers’ many colonial commissions the most famous and enduring …

  • John Krzywokulski : recent paintings (signed copy)

    # 46742

    KRZYWOKULSKI, John (1947 - )

    John Krzywokulski : recent paintings (signed copy)

    Melbourne : Southern Cross Galleries, c. 1971. Large quarto, illustrated wrappers (creased, previous owner’s name), pp. [4], portrait photograph, catalogue of 14 works, brief biography, long essay by John Reed on lower panel. Signed and inscribed by the artist on the first page. Scarce.

  • Australia : architecture & design

    # 46738

    DOKULIL, Heide

    Australia : architecture & design

    Cologne : daab, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 237, illustrated. ‘This new survey of Australian architecture takes an expansive look at over 50 buildings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today.’ – the publisher. Ashton Raggatt McDougall – Marion …

  • Charles Rodius

    # 46745

    HANSEN, David

    Charles Rodius

    Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2023. Octavo, diecut wrappers, pp. 26, illustrated. Published to accompany the exhibition at the State Library.

  • Aboriginal art 2006

    # 46740

    LIVESEY, Scott

    Aboriginal art 2006

    Melbourne : Scott Livesey Art Dealer, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 60, illustrated. Price lis enclosed. Includes works by Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Timothy Cook, George Tjungurrayi and others.

  • Nolan on Nolan : Sidney Nolan in his own words (signed presentation copy)

    # 46714

    UNDERHILL, Nancy

    Nolan on Nolan : Sidney Nolan in his own words (signed presentation copy)

    Melbourne : Penguin Group (Australia), 2007. Octavo, boards in dustjacket (lightly creased along top edge), pp. 414, illustrated, a very good copy. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, with a warm personal inscription to her signed by the author.  

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fifty-Nine

    # 46711

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fifty-Nine

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1933. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, 92pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, edges rubbed and a crack to upper hinge, else good. Features essay by Gavin Long on the Heysen loan exhibition; essay on S. Woodward Smith and Kenneth MacQueen …

  • Sidney Nolan : a life (signed presentation copy)

    # 46710

    UNDERHILL, Nancy

    Sidney Nolan : a life (signed presentation copy)

    Sydney : Newsouth, 2015. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 414, illustrated, a fine copy. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, with a warm personal inscription to her signed by the author.