AUSTRALIAN ART July 2026
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# 50763
NORTON, Leonie
Women of flowers : botanical art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, slightly bumped, pp. 126, illustrated, crease to the lower board. A tribute to the female colonial artists who documented Australia’s indigenous wildflowers and plants through their art.
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# 50762
GOODCHILD, John C.; BROOKS, Judith
John C. Goodchild 1898-1980 : his life & art
Text by Judith Brooks ; research by Doreen Goodchild. [Glen Osmond, S. Aust. : D. Goodchild], 1983. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp 104, illustrated. edges rubbed and flecked, light foxing, a good copy. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the authors.
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# 50761
BAIL, Murray
Fairweather
Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2009. Quarto, plum cloth boards in dustjacket, light edge wear and a little canted, 280 pp, illustrated, a very good copy. Revised and expanded edition of Murray Bail’s definitive work on the life and art of Ian Fairweather. Scarce.
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# 50743
NEWTON, Helmut
Helmut Newton “One Off”
Berlin : Phaidon Press, 2026. Folio, lettered cloth, exposed stitching (as issued), pp. 144, illustrated. A very good copy. A stunning reproduction of a unique album of Helmut Newton’s iconic photographs including many previously unseen images ‘A stunning reproduction of a unique album of Helmut Newton’s iconic photographs, including many previously unseen images German-Australian photographer …
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# 50744
[CARRICK FOX]. DE VRIES, Susanna
Ethel Carrick Fox: travels and triumphs of a post-impressionist (limited edition)
Brisbane : Pandanus Press, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, illustrated dust jacket, illustrated throughout with colour and black & white plates, scholarly text on the artist by Susanna de Vries, a very good copy. The limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author, in lettered slipcase.
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# 50736
O'FERRALL, Michael
Tjukurrpa : desert dreamings : Aboriginal art from Central Australia 1971 – 1993
Perth : Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1993. Quarto (215 x 240 mm), illustrated wrappers, pp. 60, illustrated; an excellent copy.
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# 50734
HENSON, Bill
Bill Henson : landscapes
Castlemaine : Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 2016. Oblong quarto, wrappers, pp. [x]; 8 colour plates with text; [6]. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Catalogue for exhibition Bill Herson: Landscapes held at Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum from 30 April to 30 June 2016
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# 50694
McCAUGHEY, Patrick
The limits of vision. The Second Dobell Memorial Lecture, October 1977 (signed copy)
Sydney : The Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, 1978. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, pp. 18. Limited to 350 numbered copies, this copy is signed on the title page by Patrick McCaughey.
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# 50684
KILGOUR, Jack
Kilgour : a retrospective
Newcastle : Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 1977. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [20], illustrated in black and white, catalogue, essay by Joanna Mendelssohn.
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# 50683
[NOLAN, Sidney]
[NOLAN]. Fine Australian Paintings
Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 1989. Quarto, self-wrappers, pp. [12], illustrating First Class Marksman (1946) by Sidney Nolan, and works by Fairweather and Brack. For many years First Class Marksman (1946) was the only painting from Sidney Nolan’s seminal Kelly series remaining in private ownership, the other 26 paintings from the series being in the collection of the …
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# 50695
BOYD, Jamie (1948 - 2025)
Jamie Boyd. Paintings and drawings 1965 – 1986.
[London?] : the artist, circa 1986. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, dustjacket (verso foxed, sunned), pp. 68, illustrated.
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# 50691
FERSON, Mark J.; KING, Richard
The bookplates of Graham Cox
Sydney : The New Australian Bookplates Society, 2021. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 20, illustrated, erratum slip. With a warm inscription from Richard King, and signed by Mark Ferson.
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# 50692
RYMILL, Arthur
David Driden
Adelaide : the artist, 1972. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, illustrated dustjacket (lightly foxed), pp. [28]; foreword by Russell Drysdale, 34 colour and monochrome plates.
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# 50669
LEWIN, John and William
John and William Lewin
Sydney : Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, stapled, pp. [16], black and white illustrations, foreword by Sandra Warner, a couple of spots of foxing, a very good copy.
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# 50693
BELL, Amber Creswell
A painted landscape : across Australia from bush to coast
Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 2018. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 272, illustrated. Includes artists Dan Kyle, Elisabeth Cummings, Holly Greenwood, Nicole Chaffey, Robert Malherbe, Ann Thomson, Charmaine Pike, Paula Jenkins, Amanda Penrose Hart, Lucy Culliton, Wendy McDonald, John Lloyd, John R Walker, Leisl Mott, Angus Nivison, Ken Done, Fiona Barrett-Clark, Simon Buchan, Rick Amor, …
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# 50696
BURKE, Janine
Australian women artists 1840 – 1940
Melbourne : Greenhouse, 1980. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. 188, illustrated, a hint of foxing to preliminaries. Includes biographical details on colonial, impressionist and modernist painters. Includes works by Grace Crowley, Clarice Beckett, Ethel Spowers, Margaret Preston, Eveline Syme, A.M.E. Bale, Jean Bellette, Dorrit Black, Lina Bryans, Sybil Craig, Ethel …