Australian Art April 2025
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# 46706
EVANS, Susanna
Historic Sydney as seen by its early artists
Sydney : Doubleday, 1983. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, spine a little faded, pp. 160, illustrated in colour and black and white. The history of Australia’s first city told through its colonial artists.
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# 46675
THOMAS, Daniel
Quarterly July 1969. Tom Roberts Special Number
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1969. Vol. 10, No. 4, July 1969. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 466 – 488, illustrated in black and white. Quarterly magazine from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this issue dedicated to the work of Tom Roberts.
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# 46703
NOLAN, Cynthia (1908-1976); NOLAN, Sidney (1917-1992) (illustrator)
Outback
London : Methuen, 1962. Octavo, publisher’s red cloth boards in Sidney Nolan dust jacket (worn at head of spine), pp 222, with illustrations by Sidney Nolan and numerous photographic plates; a free handling marks, a good copy. Memoir of the Nolans’ journey through outback New South Wales, Central Australia, South Australia and Western Australia.
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# 46702
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Nolan : the estate of Sir Sidney Nolan
Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 112, illustrations throughout. Auction catalogue for the estate of Sir Sidney Nolan on the date of September 16, 2001.
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# 46699
MACKAY, Elina
The Great Aussie Fashion. Australian fashion designers 1984 – 1985
Sydney : Kevin Weldon, 1984. Folio, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear, lightly creased), pp. 288, some fold-out illustrations, extensively illustrated with fashion photographs, else a very good copy. A super hot look at contemporary designers creating garments for a modern, stylish Australia still riding the wave of our American Cup win. Jenny Lee, Prue Acton, …
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# 46697
LINDSAY, Ray; ARNOLD, John
A letter from Sydney (signed and inscribed copy)
Being a long epistle from Ray Lindsay to his brother Jack relating mainly to their lives in Sydney in the nineteen-twenties. Edited by John Arnold. Melbourne: The Jester Press Pty Ltd, 1983. Large octavo, printed wrappers 56pp., photographic frontispiece. Limited to 1100 copies. With a signed presentation inscription from the editor and the publisher.
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# 46695
BAGLIONE, Gabrielle et al.
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Painter and naturalist : a forgotten treasure
[Paris] : MKF Editions, [2016]. Quarto, pictorial laminated boards, pp. 392, illustrated. New copy. Text by Gabrielle Baglione, Cédric Crémière ; translated from French into English by Jean Fornasiero & John West-Sooby. On 19 October 1800, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur set sail on a voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands led by Nicolas Baudin. He soon demonstrated …
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# 46687
CULLEN, Jenny
No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 239, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in storage since publication, still sealed in publisher’s plastic. Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting for six and a half years, first at the Julian Ashton …
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# 46684
HAYSOM, Rob
Arnold Shore : pioneer modernist
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated. As new. Nearly every history of Australian modern art, and monographs dedicated to artists of the period, will refer to the writings of Arnold Shore. Deakin University academic, Rob Haysom, explores the background of the artist, the difficulties of his time, and the development …
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# 46681
[BOCK]. BUTLER, Roger, et al.
Thomas Bock. Convict engraver, society portraitist
Tasmania, Canberra : Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery and Australian National Gallery, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 108, preface by Kevin Munn, introduction by Diane Dunbar, chronology of Bock’s life and work, essay on Bock by Roger Butler, essay by Andrew Sayers, essay on Thomas Bock’s portraits of the Tasmanian Aborigines by N. J. …
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# 46671
JORDAN, Caroline
Picturesque pursuits : colonial women artists & the amateur tradition
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2005. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. 224, illustrated. Australian colonial women artists produced a rich ouevre of paintings, drawings and craftworks of the highest quality. In this cultural history, Caroline Jordan explores the work of Georgiana McCrae, Fanny Macleay, Elizabeth Gould, Louisa Anne Meredith and …
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# 46961
TUNNICLIFFE, Wayne
Streeton
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales in conjunction with Thames & Hudson, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 384, illustrated. Light handling marks, a very good copy. A superb monograph on the leading Australian impressionist. With his remarkable evocations of light and the landscape, Australian artist Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) remains one of the most …
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# 46662
JOHNSON, Heather
The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940
Grass Point [N.S.W.] : Bungoona Technologies, 1997. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 279, black and white illustrations. Scarce. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title.
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# 46663
TIMMS, Peter
Sir John Longstaff 1862 – 1941
an exhibition prepared by Shepparton Art Gallery for Arts Victoria 75. Shepparton : Shepparton Art Gallery, 1975. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated. From the library of noted art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title.
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# 46661
SMITH, Geoffrey
Arthur Streeton : the passionate gardener
Mornington : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2002. Quarto, illustrated cards (edges rubbed), pp. 24, illustrated. Scarce.
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# 46636
WHITE, Lee (editor)
Melbourne journal of technical studies in art. Volume 1 : Frames
[Melbourne, Vic.] : University of Melbourne, Conservation Service, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 158, illustrated. A valuable guide to Australian historical frames. Includes chapters on frame makers Isaac Whitehead and John Thallon, and a directory of frame makers in Sydney and Tasmania.