AUSTRALIAN ART May 2026
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 50346
BACQUART, Jean-Baptiste & Bernard DE GRUNNE
The Peter Hallinan Collection of Melanesian Art. Sotheby’s, London, 7 December 1992.
London : Sotheby’s, 1992. Auction catalogue. Large quarto (280 x 215 mm), decorated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; pp. 199, [3 bibliography]; 166 lots, illustrated in colour; an excellent copy.
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# 50261
HUDSON, Mike (1939 - 2021)
Proof impression of an original wood engraved bookplate for Geoffrey Cains
Wood engraving, 120 x 95 mm (image), 165 x 120 mm (sheet), signed lower right and dated ’91, editioned lower left A/P/ 9/20. One of 20 artist’s proof impressions of an original wood engraved bookplate, printed before the addition of lettering, made for distinguished doctor and book collector Geoffrey Cains. Mike Hudson (1939–2021) was a …
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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 …