Australian Art May 2026
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# 50304
ROONEY, Robert
Innocence and danger : an artist’s view of childhood
Melbourne : Heide Part and Art Gallery, 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Charles Blackman, pp. 32, illustrated. Includes illustrations of works by John Perceval, Charles Blackman, Joy Hester, Danila Vassilieff, John Brack, et al.
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# 50307
ADAM, Rosemary
Robert Rooney : the Kovalevsky paintings
Melbourne : Tolarno Galleries, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated. Invite and price list enclosed.
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# 50300
ZIMMER, Jenny (editor)
From an evolutionary point of view? A series of occasional drawings by Klaus Rudolf Zimmer (standard edition)
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing and Zimmer Editions, 2021. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 184, illustrated. The standard edition. New copy. ‘How did this book of unusual drawings, arranged in a hypothetically evolutionary cycle, come about? With a Berlin Diploma of Graphic Art, a successful audition for the Berlin Staatsoper and extensive adventures in the South …
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# 50299
EDWARDS, Geoffrey
Art of Glass : Glass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing and the National Gallery of Victoria, 1998. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 208, illustrated in colour. A fine copy. Jointly published by the National Gallery of Victoria and Macmillan Publishers Australia this book is the first publication to document in depth the nature, extent and history of the National Gallery …
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# 50291
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Paddington charades
Etching, 40 x 50.5 cm (plate line); 70 x 80 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned A/P lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, unframed. The published edition was 30 copies. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating a row of terrace houses with children and cat motifs. Provenance: The estate …
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# 50290
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Jack and the giant (circa 1975)
Etching and aquatint, 50.5 x 39.5 cm (plate line); 69.5 x 59.5 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned 20/20 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a couple of small spots of foxing in the margin, unframed. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English fairy tale. Provenance: The …
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# 50289
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
To fetch a pail of water (circa 1975)
Etching and aquatint, 50.5 x 39.5 cm (plate line); 69.5 x 59.5 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned A/P lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a couple of very small spots of foxing in the margin, unframed. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English nursery rhyme. Jack …
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# 50288
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Hickory hickory dock (circa 1975)
Etching and aquatint, 50.5 x 39.5 cm (plate line); 69.5 x 59.5 cm (sheet), printed on Arches paper, titled in pencil lower centre, editioned 15/20 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a couple of small spots of foxing in the margin, unframed. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English …
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# 50287
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
So many children (circa 1975)
Etching and aquatint, 39.5 x 50.5 cm (plate line); 59.5 x 69.5 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned 9/20 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a fine example, unframed. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English nursery rhyme There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a …
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# 50286
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Summer days – Colette
Screenprint, 53 x 35 cm (image); 56.5 x 39 cm (sheet), numbered 48/75 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, titled lower centre, a couple of very small spots of foxing, unframed. A fine Blackman screenprint inspired from his ‘Colette’ series, a series of works from the late 1970s inspired by Claudine schoolgirl novels …
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# 50285
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
The mirror (1976)
Etching, 19.5 x 15 cm (plate line); 60 x 40 cm (sheet), titled lower centre, edition A/P (artist’s proof, the published edition was 30 copies), signed by Blackman lower right, a couple of very minor spots of foxing, unframed. A charming Blackman etching printed in colour. Collections: National Gallery of Australia (79.89) Provenance: The estate …
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# 50284
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Ding dong dell (circa 1975)
Etching and aquatint, 50.5 x 39.5 cm (plate line); 69.5 x 59.5 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned 14/20 lower left, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a couple of small spots of foxing in the margin, unframed. A fine large format Blackman etching illustrating the traditional English nursery rhyme. Ding dong …
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# 50283
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
I love Tom Jones (1969)
Colour screenprint, 40 x 57 cm (plate line); 56 x 76 cm (sheet), titled in pencil lower centre, editioned V15/25 lower left, signed and dated by Blackman in pencil lower right, blind stamp lower right which reads “Hand-printed in collaboration with the artist. Paddington Print Studio, Australia’, light handling creases, unframed. A fine large format …
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# 50281
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Playtime (circa 1980)
Screenprint, 32 x 48 cm (image); 45.5 x 58 cm (sheet), titled lower centre and editioned lower left 57/100, signed by Blackman in pencil lower right, a fine example, unframed. A fine and dynamically composed Blackman screenprint of children at play. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) The estate of …
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# 50279
FULLERTON, Patricia and SMITH, Bernard
Hugh Ramsay 1877 – 1906
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1992. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 82, extensively illustrated.
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# 50264
[VASSILIEFF]. ST JOHN MOORE, Felicity.
Vassilieff and his art.
Melbourne: Macmillan, 2012. (First published 1982). Quarto, gatefold wrappers, 232 pp., illustrated. Mint copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap.