Australian Art May 2026

  • Daughters of the sun. Christian Waller & Klytie Pate (deluxe edition)

    # 50105

    COX, Emma Busowsky

    Daughters of the sun. Christian Waller & Klytie Pate (deluxe edition)

    Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2018. Folio, gilt-lettered green cloth, pp. [iv]; 117, (3), fully illustrated, including fold out plates. Lavishly produced exhibition catalogue for the first major retrospective on the two Melbourne artists (aunt and niece) in several decades. Includes Waller’s magnificent art deco publications The great breath  and The gates of dawn as well as the …

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  • [BESSIE DAVIDSON] Quelques femmes peintres.

    # 49934

    BUNOUST, Madeleine

    [BESSIE DAVIDSON] Quelques femmes peintres.

    Paris : Librairie Stock, 1936. Edition limited to 300 copies, this being one of 270 copies on Vélin d’Aussedat paper. Quarto (255 x 195 mm), publisher’s printed cream-coloured paper wrappers over plain card; pp. 134, including one-page biography of Australian expatriate artist Bessie Davidson, illustrated with 36 plates in b/w, including a portrait photo of Davidson and …

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  • Accent & Hazard (copy A - the artist's own copy)

    # 50335

    STRACHAN, David (artist); KERSHAW, Alister (text)

    Accent & Hazard (copy A – the artist’s own copy)

    Paris : printed by Jacques Murray at the Stramur-presse, 1951. Small folio, colour printed paper portfolio (short split to one corner)in original card slipcase (slightly scuffed), housing ten sections containing Kershaw’s poems, etched from the manuscript by Murray, illustrated by eight large full page, double page or folding etchings and aquatints by David Strachan complemented …

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  • Brett Whiteley : art & life (signed by Wendy Whiteley)

    # 50024

    [WHITELEY]. PEARCE, Barry, ROBERTSON, Bryan and WHITELEY, Wendy.

    Brett Whiteley : art & life (signed by Wendy Whiteley)

    Sydney : The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto, hardcover in dustjacket (light edge wear), 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. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper ‘Enjoy !! …

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  • The science of appearances

    # 49913

    MELDRUM, Max

    The science of appearances

    as formulated and taught by Max Meldrum. Arranged and edited by Russell R. Foreman. Sydney : The Shepherd Press, 1950. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (edge worn with chips to head and foot of spine), light silver fishing to endpaper, pp. 79-80 neatly detached but present, tipped-in portrait frontispiece, pp. xvii; 298; extensively illustrated …

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  • No standing, only dancing : photographs by Rennie Ellis. (Deluxe edition with photograph)

    # 49656

    van WYK, Susan; NEGUS, George

    No standing, only dancing : photographs by Rennie Ellis. (Deluxe edition with photograph)

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Quarto, black Brillianta linen with debossed Rennie Ellis signature and clear foil finish, hand crafted slip case, pp. 135, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 110 copies (of which 100 were for sale) with an original Rennie Ellis photograph Dino Ferrari, Toorak Road 1976 (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm) …

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  • Santa Cruz, Toledo (1936) (original etching with accompanying booklet)

    # 50098

    LINDSAY, Lionel (1874 - 1961)

    Santa Cruz, Toledo (1936) (original etching with accompanying booklet)

    Etching, printed in brown ink, 25.2 x 17.6 cm (plate mark), 322 x 235 mm (paper), mounted at upper hinge to a backing card, old mount burn, light foxing, very good. Loosely enclosed, a contemporary printed caption announcing that the etching is printed exclusively for members of The Society of Print Connoisseurs, November 1946. Accompanied …

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  • Out from the shadows. John Mitchell Cantle 1849 - 1919 : Australia's first native-born ornithological draughtsman

    # 50355

    CABOURET, Mark R.

    Out from the shadows. John Mitchell Cantle 1849 – 1919 : Australia’s first native-born ornithological draughtsman

    Sydney : The Australiana Society Inc., 2023. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. New copy. ‘An illustrated work documenting the Australian John Mitchell Cantle and his bird illustrations. He was an architectural draughtsman and railway surveyor, but is best known as an ornithological painter, illustrator, cartoonist and postcard designer.’ – Trove ‘Mark Cabouret is a …

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  • Paris (deluxe edition)

    # 50344

    MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

    Paris (deluxe edition)

    London : Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Quarto, gilt-lettered decorated cloth over bevelled boards (a few light marks, spine slightly dulled), top edge gilt, others uncut; endpapers foxed; pp. xii, 185, illustrated with 75 colour plates, all with captioned tissue guards; occasional foxing, a very good copy of the edition de luxe, limited to 500 …

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  • Gabori : the Corrigan collection of paintings by Sally Gabori

    # 50342

    MUNDINE, Djon and BAKER, Candida.

    Gabori : the Corrigan collection of paintings by Sally Gabori

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, as new (in storage since publication, not a second hand copy), illustrated endpapers, pp. 222, illustrated. Fine copy, quite scarce. Mirdidingkingathi Juwarrnda Sally Gabori was born c. 1924 on Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria – an island inhabited by the Kaiadilt people for …

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  • Jeffrey Smart. Unpublished Paintings 1940 - 2007 (signed copy)

    # 50340

    [SMART]. ALLEN, Christopher

    Jeffrey Smart. Unpublished Paintings 1940 – 2007 (signed copy)

    Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 285, extensively illustrated. A fine copy, without any signs of wear or damage, signed by Jeffrey Smart.  

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  • Russell Drysdale. A retrospective exhibition of paintings from 1937 to 1960 (signed copy)

    # 50327

    [DRYSDALE]. HAEFLIGER, Paul

    Russell Drysdale. A retrospective exhibition of paintings from 1937 to 1960 (signed copy)

    With an introduction by Paul Haefliger. Twelve paintings in colour and twenty-four in black & white. Sydney : Sydney Ure Smith [1960]. Quarto, boards in dust jacket (edges rubbed), photographic contact sheets reproduced as endpapers, introduction by Paul Haefliger, chronology of the artist’s life and work, twelve colour and twenty-four black & white plates, catalogue …

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  • Violet Teague

    # 50326

    CLARK, Jane and DRUCE, Felicity

    Violet Teague

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 128, published in conjunction with the Violet Teague retrospective exhibition (1999), foreword by Professor Jaynie Anderson, contains 52 colour and black & white plates of Teague’s works, introduction by Jane Clark, essays by Felicity Druce, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Anita Callaway, Kay …

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  • John Wolseley. Travelling west to Sunset Tank

    # 50305

    WOLSELEY, John

    John Wolseley. Travelling west to Sunset Tank

    Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, quarto, folded card, pp. [6], illustrated.

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  • Ian Burn : the second hand

    # 50310

    BURN, Ian

    Ian Burn : the second hand

    Brisbane : Bellas Milani Gallery, 2006. Oblong octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. [28], illustrated. Price list enclosed.

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  • Stained glass in Australia

    # 50303

    ZIMMER, Jenny

    Stained glass in Australia

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1984. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. viii; 178, illustrated. A fine copy. A history of stained glass in Australia, from historical to contemporary.

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