AUSTRALIAN ART July 2026
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# 50831
ASHTON, Dore
David Rankin : the New York years (deluxe edition, with original signed etching)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2013. Quarto, linen bound boards in matching slipcase, ribbon drawer, pp. 288, illustrated. The deluxe edition printed in an edition of 40 copies, specially bound, accompanied by an original signed etching presented loose, the etching numbered AP 2/10. Fine copy. This book provides illuminating insights into the development of the numerous themes …
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# 50673
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Australian Natives – The Picnic
[Sydney : NSW Bookstall Co., c.1905]. Chromolithographic postcard, 138 x 38 mm, recto with Norman Lindsay illustration from the series Australian Natives, captioned The Picnic; inscribed and postally used in New South Wales, corners worn, else in good condition. Scarce Norman Lindsay illustrated postcard.
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# 50674
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Australian Natives – What, ho! She bumps.
[Sydney : NSW Bookstall Co., c.1905]. Chromolithographic postcard, 138 x 38 mm, recto with Norman Lindsay illustration from the Australian Natives series, captioned What, ho! She bumps; good example with some very light corner wear; postally used in Coonabarabran, with an inscription to the recipient on the margins of the image reminding them of a fishing trip.
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# 50705
Charles Blackman with Laurence Hope, Moreton Galleries, Brisbane, 1949
Gelatin silver print photograph (copy print), 215 x 170 mm (sheet); verso handwritten label: ‘[crossed out: Charles Blackman] The artist with Laurence Hope (left) [crossed out: at Laurence’s exhibition at the Moreton Galleries], Brisbane, 1949. Photograph courtesy Laurence Hope’; unmounted; fine condition. Literature: Felicity St John Moore, Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and angels. A retrospective exhibition …
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# 50708
HOPE, Laurence
Charles Blackman in London with umbrella, holding ‘English picnic’, 1981
Gelatin silver print photograph (from the original negative), 134 x 200 mm (sheet); verso handwritten label: ‘Additional extra. English picnic – the artist in London 1981. Photograph courtesy Laurence Hope’; unmounted; fine condition. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman The library of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933-2025), art historian, curator and …
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# 50704
STARK, Barrie
Charles Blackman sawing a painting, c.1975
Gelatin silver print photograph (copy print), 165 x 215 mm (sheet); verso in pencil ‘Essay ill. 10’; unmounted; fine condition. Literature: ‘Artist makes a sawn-off political protest’, The Australian, Sydney, 22 November 1975, p.1 (illustrated) Felicity St John Moore, Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and angels. A retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Charles Blackman, National …
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# 50707
Charles Blackman in studio with ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ paintings, c.1987
Gelatin silver print photograph (from the original negative), 253 x 200 mm (sheet); unmounted; fine condition. Literature: Felicity St John Moore, Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and angels. A retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Charles Blackman, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1993, p.14 (illustrated) with caption ‘Waiting for his work to speak for itself. The …
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# 50710
[PERCEVAL, Mary]
Barbara Blackman with Auguste, Christobel and Barnaby, London, 1964
Gelatin silver print photograph (from the original negative by Mary (Boyd) Perceval), 248 x 197 mm (sheet); verso in pencil: ’28A’; unmounted; small surface scratch to the right of Barbara’s ear), otherwise fine condition. Literature: Felicity St John Moore, Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and angels. A retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Charles Blackman, National …
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# 50715
WALKER, Robert
Charles Blackman with Nadine Amadio, Sydney, 1979.
Gelatin silver print photograph (from the original negative), 253 x 200 mm (sheet); unmounted; verso handwritten label: ‘The artist with Nadine Amadio. Sydney, 1979. Photograph Robert Walker. Essay 1’; fine condition. Arts critic, writer and filmmaker Nadine Amadio (1929-2009) first met Blackman at Heide when she was 15, and they remained lifelong friends. This portrait …
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# 50703
Charles Blackman seated in cane chair, c.1974
Gelatin silver print photograph (copy print) on medium card stock, 375 x 295 mm (sheet); verso ‘Copyright’ stamp in purple ink, with added handwritten label that reads ‘The artist c.1974. Photograph courtesy West Australian newspapers’; unmounted; light creasing with resultant surface loss towards right edge, otherwise good condition, in fully contemporary wrap-around glassine sleeve affixed …
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# 50709
HOPE, Laurence
Charles Blackman and family, Highgate Woods, England, 1964
Gelatin silver print photograph (from the original negative), 143 x 207 mm (sheet); verso handwritten label: ‘The Blackmans in Highgate Woods 1964. 24 Photograph [crossed out: Barbara Blackman Veldhoven], Laurence Hope’; unmounted; fine condition. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman The library of the late Felicity St. John Moore (1933-2025), art historian, curator …
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# 50625
LINDSAY, Norman (1879 - 1969)
The scribblings of an idle mind (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, 1966. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear, small chips at head and foot of spine), edges and endpapers lightly foxed, internally clean. The deluxe edition, limited to 350 copies personally signed by Lindsay. The personal reflections and thoughts of Norman Lindsay, at the end of his long and fruitful …
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# 50648
COPPEL, Stephen
Linocuts of the machine age : Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School (limited edition)
Aldershot, Hants, Eng. : Scolar Press, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, 1995. First edition. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dust jacket, pp. 205, extensively illustrated; a fine copy. The limited edition of 30 copies, which was issued with the oversized print by Lill Tschudi Ski-joring (Coppel LT 54), not included with this copy. …
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# 50723
McPHEE, John (ed.)
Joseph Lycett : convict artist
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006. Quarto, cloth-covered boards in illustrated dust jacket (lightly sunned), pp. 285, illustrated in colour throughout, academic text on the artist by John McPhee, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Shane Frost and Martin Terry. A richly illustrated monograph on the convict artist Joseph Lycett published on the …
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# 50879
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Robert Jacks: his Bloomsday book
Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2004. Folio, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, illustrated throughout and accompanied by poetry by James Joyce et al. With a signed bookplate limited to 500 copies tipped-in to the front endpaper. The Bloomsday book was conceived by Jacks as part of his involvement with the centenary of Bloomsday, the day of events …
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# 50870
CLINCH, Robert
Robert Clinch. Fanfare for the common man (signed and inscribed copy)
Ballarat : Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 108, illustrated. Essay by David Thomas, interview by Julie Collett. Signed and inscribed by the artist, dated 2016.