AUSTRALIAN ART May 2026
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# 50052
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #5
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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# 50051
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #4
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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# 50050
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
Study in blue #3
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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# 50041
RANKIN, David
David Rankin. The walls of the heart
Melbourne : Metro 5 Gallery, 2001. Quarto, illustrated folding card, 8 pages. Essay by David Thomas about the artist. Price list enclosed.
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# 50040
ASHTON, Dore
The walls of the heart : the life and work of David Rankin (signed presentation copy for Yvonne Audette)
= Die Mauern des Herzens : Leben und Werk von David Rankin. Wien : Christian Brandstätter, 2001. Quarto, fine black boards in like dust jacket, 111 pp, colour illustrations, a fine copy. Parallel text in English and German. Signed and inscribed by the artist on the title page ‘For dear Yvonne with my love and …
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# 50039
GRISHIN, Sasha.
Bruno Leti. Six Memos on the art of Bruno Leti (signed presentation copy for Yvonne Audette)
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2002. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (light edge wear), 184pp. illustrated with images of Leti’s contemporary graphics and artists’ books. Signed and inscribed by the artist ‘For Yvonne, in friendship and for the love of ‘music’ in art, Bruno’. Provenance: Australian artist Bruno Leti (born 1941) Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930). …
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# 50038
ROBINSON, William (1936 - 2025)
William Robinson. Paintings and works on paper
Brisbane : Philip Bacon Galleries, 2001. Folio, illustrated wrappers, handling creases, pp. 10, illustrated, text by Lou Klepac, price list.
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# 50037
GALLERY GABRIELLE PIZZI; KOHEN, Apolline; TAYLOR, Luke; ALTMAN, Jon
John Mawurndjul
Melbourne : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, in association with Maningrida Arts & Culture, [2007]. Quarto (275 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, 39 pp., illustrated in colour; essay by Apolline Kohen, Arts Director at Maningrida Arts & Culture, and another by Jon Altman and Luke Taylor; an excellent copy. Scarce catalogue of an exhibition held at …
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# 50306
CRAWFORD, Ashley
Fiona Omeenyo. New life
Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [40], illustrated.
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# 50023
MUNDINE, Djon et al.
They are meditating : bark paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection
Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 272, illustrated.. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: 14 February – 3 August 2008. ‘They are Meditating: Bark paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection showcased over 200 rare and significant Aboriginal bark paintings from the late 1960s …
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# 50021
SMITH, Robert
Noel Counihan Prints 1931 – 1981. A catalogue raisonne
Sydney : Hale & Ironmonger, 1981. Quarto, gilt-blocked cloth, dust jacket, pp. 168, fully illustrated; bookplate to endpaper, a very good copy of the essential reference on Counihan’s graphic output.
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# 50020
HALL Barbara and MATHER, Jenni
Australian women photographers 1840 – 1960
Melbourne : Greenhouse, 1986. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 164, illustrated. A detailed monograph on photography by female Australian artists, including Louisa Anne Meredith, Olive Cotton, Edna Walling etc..
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# 50009
LAVERTY, Colin and Elizabeth, et al
Beyond Sacred. Recent paintings from Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities : the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty
Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books, 2008. First edition. Folio (34 cm tall), boards in diecut folding dustjacket, illustrated endpapers, pp. [viii]; 352, extensively illustrated. A mint copy, as new. A comprehensive, visually stunning survey of recent Aboriginal art, with images of more than 250 paintings. It tells the story of Aboriginal art and its growing …
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# 50008
PIGOTT, Louis J.
The bird man of Brisbane : Silvester Diggles and his ornithology of Australia
Brisbane. : Boolarong Press, 2010. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. xii; 214, illustrated. ‘When Silvester Diggles arrived in 1855 there was little artistic or scientific talent in the small frontier town of Brisbane. By the time of his death in 1880, his paramount legacy was a large book on Australian birds, profusely illustrated with hand-coloured lithographs. …
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# 50007
[CORRIGAN, Patrick]
Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family (standard edition)
Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. Quarto (365 mm tall), gilt-decorated blue cloth in matching slipcase, pp 148, portrait frontispiece, signed bookplate by Andrew Sibley, essay, tipped-in photographs, forty tipped-in facsimile bookplates commissioned from Australian artists by Pat Corrigan. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author, collector and publisher; printed letterpress, with a …
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# 49982
DAALDER, Truus
Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment. Australia, Oceania, Asia, Africa
Adelaide : Ethnic Art Press ; South Yarra, Vic. : Macmillan, 2009. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 420, illustrated in colour. As new copy, still sealed in shrinkwrap and in publisher’s carton. “A sumptuously produced book with an elaborate, informative text and 704 beautiful photographs of adornment from many parts of the world, ranging …