AUSTRALIAN ART May 2026
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# 50178
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Vase and face
Etching, 25 x 19.5 cm (plate line); 40 x 40 cm (sheet), titled lower centre, edition W/P (working proof, the published edition was 80 copies), signed with Blackman studio stamp lower right, a couple of small spots of foxing to outer margins, unframed. A fine Blackman etching printed in two colours. Provenance: The estate of …
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# 50176
BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)
Girl with flowers
Etching and aquatint, 24 x 24 cm (plate line, circular); 35 x 30 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (artist’s proof), signed with Blackman studio stamp lower right, a few inky fingermarks, printer’s colour notes in pencil lower margin, unframed. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) The estate of …
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# 50169
BURKE, Janine
Joy Hester
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1981. Quarto, softcover (lightly marked), pp. 56, illustrated.
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# 50168
RADFORD, Ryan
James Cant 1911-1982 : retrospective
[n.l] : Ryan Radford, [1984]. Square octavo, illustrated wrappers (creased), pp 32. Illustrated with black and white images throughout.
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# 50167
EAGLE, Mary and MINCHIN, Jan.
The George Bell School : students, friends, influences (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art and Sydney: Resolution Press, 1981. Quarto, blindstamped leather bound boards in orange slipcase, 272 pages, fully illustrated, internally clean. The deluxe edition limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by twelve artists from the school on the limitation page as issued: Eric Thake, Alan Sumner, Yvonne Atkinson, Geoff Jones, Jack Courier, …
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# 50165
PALMER, Maudie; WRIGHT, Judith
‘Alice in Wonderland’ painted in 1956 – 57 by Charles Blackman 24 May – 10 July 1983
Melbourne : Heide Gallery, 1983. Exhibition catalogue, single sheet, 560 x 410 mm, 285 x 205 mm (folded), in the form of a poster illustrating the painting At the Tea Party from the Alice in Wonderland series on one side, the verso with catalogue and essays by Maudie Palmer and Judith Wight, and portrait of Blackman with biographical …
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# 50214
POSTLE, Bruce (1940 - )
Tommy Woodcock and Reckless 1977 (printed 2010)
Type C photograph on paper (sheet: 31.8 cm x 39.6 cm, image: 27.8 cm x 35.0 cm), small handling crease lower right, else fine. An iconic image of the great horse trainer, another example of which is in the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. ‘Aaron ‘Tommy’ Woodcock (1905–1985), horse strapper and trainer, was the son of …
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# 50124
HART, Deborah
John Olsen (Yvonne Audette’s copy)
Sydney : Craftsman House, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, handling creases, spine a little sunned, a few marks to preliminaries, pp. 228, illustrated. A lavish monograph on the great Australian painter. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930), with a signed inscription by her on the half title ‘To Dear John’. Acquired from the artist in …
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# 50108
[WALLER, Christian]. THOMAS, David
The art of Christian Waller
Bendigo, Vic. : Bendigo Art Gallery : 1992. Folio, illustrated wrappers, 70 pp. illustrated. A comprehensive exhibition catalogue on the noted art deco artist. A fine copy.
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# 50106
WALLER, Christian
The gates of dawn
Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1978. Octavo, illustrated wrappers in card dustjacket, unpaginated, illustrated. Limited to 1000 copies. Small format facsimile of Waller’s rare art deco period children’s book.
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# 50084
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Reprinted 2022. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTQI scene in the late 70s and 80s through to the …
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# 50082
BARDON, Geoffrey; PIZZI, Gabrielle
Mythology and reality : contemporary Australian desert art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection
Melbourne : Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2004. Square quarto, pictorial laminated card covers, wraparound band, 88 pp, illustrated in colour. Catalogue from an exhibition held at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2 October 2005-30 January 2005. Touring exhibition of contemporary indigenous art from the Pizzi collection. Printed in an edition of 750 copies.
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# 50073
ZIMMER, Jenny and ZIMMER, Klaus
Glass from Australia and New Zealand at the Hessiches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
Melbourne : Ken Lockwood, Craft Arts Pty. Ltd., 1984. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 88, illustrated. Text by Jenny Zimmer, translated from English to German by Klaus Zimmer. Essays, catalogue of works, biographies, bibliography.
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# 50341
McGREGOR, Ken; HENDERSON, Geoff
Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson : the master colourist
Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2023. Folio, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 314, illustrated. Designed by Jenny Zimmer. New copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap. Scarce.
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# 50049
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #2
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.
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# 50048
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #1
Paper strips on paper, painted a vivid cobalt blue, 38 x 27.5 cms (image), presented in a floating mount in a natural timber frame measuring 48.5 x 37.5 cms. Unsigned as issued. Provenance : the estate of the late Robert Jacks, acquired circa 2020.