AUSTRALIAN ART July 2026
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# 50858
KRAUSMANN, Rudi; WHITELEY, Brett
From another shore. Prose by Rudi Krausmann. Drawings by Brett Whiteley (signed presentation copy)
Sydney : Wild & Woolley, 1975. Octavo, illustrated wrappers with cover illustration by Brett Whiteley, pp. 78, illustrated throughout with drawings by Brett Whiteley. Signed presentation copy to Australian art academic and author Jenny Zimmer from the author.
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# 50853
HUTCHINGS, P. Ae. and LEWIS, Julie
Kathleen O’Connor : artist in exile
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987. Octavo, stiff wrappers, illustrated dustjacket, pp. 326, illustrated, a very good copy of this monograph on the West Australian modernist painter.
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# 50850
[BOYD, Arthur]. PEARCE, Barry.
Arthur Boyd Retrospective
Sydney: The Beagle Press for The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 200pp. extensively illustrated. A fine copy.
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# 50849
PHIPPS, Jennifer
Creators & inventors : Australian women’s art in the National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1993. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Includes works by Ellis Rowan, Louisa Anne Meredith, Bessie Gibson, Violet Teague, Thea Proctor, Clarice Beckett, Grace Cossington-Smith, Jessie Traill, Frances Derham, Janet Cumbrae Stewart, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Klytie Pate, Joy Hester, Grace Crowley, Daphne Mayo, Jean Bellette, Hermia …
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# 50848
REID, Barrett
Of dark and light. The art of John Perceval
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1992. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, light wave to text block, illustrated.
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# 50847
ST JOHN MOORE, Felicity
Classical modernism: the George Bell circle
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1992. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 139, illustrated in colour, includes the artists Sam Ateyo, Yvonne Atkinson, Cecil Beaton, George Bell, Barbara Brash, Dorothy Braund, Lina Bryans, Frances Burke, Nutter Buzacott, Wolfgang Cardamatis, Maie Casey, Rod Clarke, Yvonne Cohen, Bill Coleman, Jack Courier, Sybil Craig, Russell Drysdale, Moya Dyring, Mary …
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# 50846
PARAMANTHAN, Nathan (editor)
The Melbourne modernists
Melbourne : Victorian Artists’ Society, 1990. Oblong folio, boards in dustjacket (lightly rubbed), pp. 40, illustrated. A study on Society members painters William Frater, A. M. Plante, Arnold Shore and Isabel Tweddle.
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# 50845
[WHITELEY]. PEARCE, Barry, ROBERTSON, Bryan and WHITELEY, Wendy.
Brett Whiteley : art & life
Sydney : The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 240, contains 180 colour and 40 monochrome plates, foreword by Edmund Capon, text by Bryan Robertson, Barry Pearce and an interview between Barry Pearce and Wendy Whiteley. Light wave to text block, a very good reference copy.
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# 50842
ZDANOWICZ, Irena
Beauty in truth : the Botanical Art of Margaret Stones
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated.
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# 50839
OLSEN, John, McGREGOR, Ken; ZIMMER, Jenny
John Olsen. Journeys into the ‘You beaut country’. (Revised edition)
Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 2016 (first published by Macmillan, 2007). Quarto, illustrated boards lettered in gold, pp. 344, illustrated. An extensive journey of Olsen’s artistic relationship with the Australian landscape. A fine copy, as new, of an elusive title. ‘This volume, companion to Teeming With Life (2005), which contained this artist’s complete printmaking oeuvre …
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# 50835
SMITH, Geoffrey
Arthur Streeton 1867 – 1943 (hardcover edition, signed by Geoffrey Smith & Oliver Streeton)
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1995. Quarto, gilt-lettered boards, illustrated dustjacket (edges a little rubbed), pp. 200 with extensive curatorial research and colour reproductions, offset markings to title page and adjacent leaf, signed on the half title by author and curator Geoffrey Smith and the artists grandson Oliver Streeton. A very good example of …
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# 50832
ROGERS, Andrew
Andrew Rogers : forms
[Melbourne : the artist], 2005. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, unpaginated, text by Chris McAuliffe, photographs of Rogers’ monumental sculptures with nudes.
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# 50830
CRAWFORD, Ashley
The Paul Guest collection
Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2019. Quarto, embossed cloth, illustrated endpapers (both reproducing the works of Robert Jacks), pp. 288, extensively illustrated. Contributions by Doug Hall, Ashley Crawford, Kirsty Grant, John Harry and Jessica Bridgfoot. ‘Celebrating the gift of his collection to Bendigo Art Gallery, this exhibition showcases the extraordinary generosity of the Honourable Paul …
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# 50815
GABORI, Sally
Sally Gabori : a survey exhibition of paintings 2005-2012
Canberra : ANU Drill Hall Gallery, 2013. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated. Text by John McPhee, Beverly Knight, Terence Maloon.
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# 50808
OLSEN, John (1928 - 2023)
John Olsen. Drawing – the human touch
With an interview by Ken McGregor. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 352, extensively illustrated. Out of print, an as-new copy. This richly illustrated publication represents the author’s attempt to locate as many of John Olsen’s drawings as possible and Macmillan’s determination to reproduce them in a book which will serve as a …
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# 50803
JONES, Phillip
Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2021. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 380. illustrated. A very good copy. George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute …