AUSTRALIAN ART July 2026
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![Untitled [Boys near window, with swords], mid-1950s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/07/2026_DSFB_4299-300x300.jpg)
# 50711
[BLACKMAN, Charles]
Untitled [Boys near window, with swords], mid-1950s.
Pen and ink and collage on paper, 380 x 280 mm, irregular (sheet); unsigned; unmounted. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman The library of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933-2025), art historian, curator and authority on the celebrated Australian artist Charles Blackman (1928-2018).
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# 50791
MORA, Georges (President)
Contemporary Art Society Broadsheet 1959
[Melbourne] : Contemporary Art Society, 1959. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (marked), stapled (detaching), offsetting to first leaf, pp. 24, with contributions from Georges Mora, John Reed, Ian Sime, Ron Greenaway, Peter Burns, Laurence Hope etc. An invaluable insight into the contemporary art scene in Melbourne in the late 1950s.
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# 50798
JACK, Kenneth (1924 - 2006)
Kenneth Jack’s holograph manuscript copy of Aaron Berkman’s book on art theory ‘Art and Space’
[Melbourne] : Kenneth Jack, 1953. Original holograph manuscript in brown ink, foolscap, title leaf, pp. 72, copying the text ‘Art and Space’ by Aaron Berkman (“condensed from the book”), illustrated with over 30 small pen and ink drawings describing the theories of the text, including reproduction sketches after Picasso, Rembrandt, Braque, Monet etc., tape to …
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# 50564
LINDSAY, Lionel
Three generations of painters (signed by Julian Ashton, Howard Ashton and Richard Ashton)
Sydney : “Blaxland” Galleries, Farmer’s, [1938]. Exhibition catalogue, single sheet, folded, old creases, signed on the upper panel by Julian Ashton, Howard Ashton and Richard Ashton, catalogue of works with prices, foreword by Lionel Lindsay. Scrce. Paintings include ‘Visit of the American Fleet to Sydney in 1908’.
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# 50722
[CUMBRAE STEWART]
The pastels of Cumbrae Stewart (expanded hardcover edition)
With an appreciation by John Shirlow. Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, n.d. [1921?]. Quarto (288 mm tall), quarter-cloth over papered boards, corners a little bumped, text and 23 leaves of plates in colour and black and white, advertisements at rear. The expanded hard cover edition (a wrappered edition was also published with 16 plates). Limited to …
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# 50773
CLINCH, Robert (1957 - )
Half-court (2005)
Lithograph on 100% cotton paper, 29.5 x 29 cms (image), framed in neutral timber with double mount, framed dimensions 55 x 52 cms. Signed and dated lower right, titled lower centre, editioned lower left. Printed in an edition of 40 copies, this is copy number 23. Robert Clinch is regarded as one of Australia’s finest …
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# 50774
CLINCH, Robert (1957 - )
Unrequited (2009)
Lithograph on 100% cotton paper, 44.5 x 27 cms (image), framed in neutral timber with double mount, framed dimensions 69 x 49 cms. Signed and dated lower right, titled lower centre, editioned lower left. Printed in an edition of 40 copies, this is copy number 4. Robert Clinch is regarded as one of Australia’s finest …
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# 50874
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928-2018)
Titania as Bride
Etching, 19.5 x 15 cm (plate line); 40 x 30 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (artist’s proof; the published edition was 60 copies); signed by Blackman lower right, unframed. A fine, lyrical Blackman etching printed in colour. Titania is the powerful, strong-willed Queen of the Fairies and wife of King Oberon in Shakespeare’s A …
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# 50843
BEIER, Ulli; COX, Paul; MORA, Mirka
Mirka (signed presentation copy)
Text by Ulli Beier, photographs by Paul Cox. Melbourne : Macmillan, 1980. First edition. Oblong quarto, buckram boards with title in blind, in pictorial dust jacket, pp 84; slight wave to text block, else a fine copy. Signed and inscribed by the author Ulli Beier to art historian and publisher Jenny Zimmer on the endpaper …
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# 50706
Charles Blackman in his studio, Sydney, January 1982
Gelatin silver print photograph (from the original negative), 250 x 180 mm (sheet); verso handwritten label: ‘The inscrutable face of the artist in his Sydney studio, January 1982. Photograph courtesy Charles Blackman. Essay 2’; unmounted; fine condition. Literature: Felicity St John Moore, Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and angels. A retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by …
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# 50750
SHEAD, Garry (1942- )
Ern Malley : The Darkening Ecliptic
Darwin : Basil Hall Editions, 2003. Nine etchings, each 150 x 220 mm, hand-printed by Natasha Rowell. Edition of 50; housed in a purpose-built ceramic box (290 x 215 x 60 mm); the etchings join up in the fashion of a puzzle to complete Shead’s image, Petit Testament; each of the nine etchings is signed verso, …
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# 50807
OLSEN, John (1928 - 2023)
John Olsen. My complete graphics 1957 – 1979 (deluxe edition with original signed etching)
Introduction by Lou Klepac. Melbourne: Australian Galleries and Gryphon Books, 1980. Folio, gilt-decorated full calf in illustrated dustjacket, 248pp., illustrated throughout, with an original signed John Olsen etching ‘Owl & train’ tipped in at rear. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies signed by Olsen with an original etching. This is copy number 41. My …
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# 50212
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
The James Joyce House of the Dead
A suite of etchings by Robert Jacks. Melbourne : Port Jackson Press Australia, 2004. Folio, recent clamshell box of full cloth with gilt-lettered morocco title label measuring 395 x 290mm containing title sheet and nine original etchings each 380 x 280mm, each signed and titled by the artist. Edition limited to thirty copies. ‘Ulysses by …
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# 50598
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
The mirror (1976) – copy number 1
Etching, 19.5 x 15 cm (plate line); 60 x 40 cm (sheet), titled lower centre, edition 1 / 30, signed by Blackman lower right, a couple of minor spots of foxing, unframed. A charming Blackman etching with his typical figurative subject. This is copy number 1. Collections: National Gallery of Australia (79.89) Provenance: The estate …
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# 50799
PEARCE, Barry.
Michael Johnson (signed and inscribed with a small sketch)
Foreword Edmund Capon. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2004. Quarto, boards in illustrated dust jacket, light edge wear, 204pp. illustrated. A major monograph on the abstractionist. This copy with a large, full page inscription by the artist which encompasses the entire title page, with a small ink sketch.
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# 50612
GASCOIGNE, Martin
Rosalie Gascoigne : her New Zealand origins (signed presentation copy)
Canberra : the author, 2012. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (bowed), pp. 293, illustrated. Signed presentation inscription from the author on the title page. Scarce biography on the New Zealand born Australian artist written and published by her son.