New Acquisitions

  • [WHITELEY]. Life and death : a visual experience in opposites

    # 51663

    WHITELEY, Brett (1939 - 1992)

    [WHITELEY]. Life and death : a visual experience in opposites

    Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 1983. Folio (38 cm tall), folding card, pp. 4., colour illustrations, catalogue of 40 artworks with notes by the artist.

  • Paris ‘Regard de Côté’

    # 51660

    WHITELEY, Brett (1939 - 1992)

    Paris ‘Regard de Côté’

    Melbourne: Australian Galleries, 1990. Oblong quarto, printed card wrappers (light handling wear), illustrated in colour throughout; light toning to preliminary blank, a very good copy. A magnificent Brett Whiteley publication from Australian Galleries, of the final series completed by Whiteley before his untimely death.

  • Brett Whiteley : the graphics 1961-1992

    # 51659

    WHITELEY, Brett (1939-1992)

    Brett Whiteley : the graphics 1961-1992

    Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1995. Small folio, illustrated cards, 120 pp, fully illustrated in colour and black and white, light handling marks to wrappers, a fine copy. A catalogue raisonne of Whiteley’s graphic output. 1000 copies were printed, of which (according to information provided by Chris Deutscher) approximately 400 were accidentally destroyed while in …

  • Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family

    # 51658

    [CORRIGAN, Patrick]

    Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family

    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 …

  • Baldessin/Whiteley : parallel visions

    # 51657

    GRISHIN, Sasha et al.

    Baldessin/Whiteley : parallel visions

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2018. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light foxing and a few light marks, pp. x; 202, illustrated. A very good copy. Published for the exhibition Baldessin/​Whiteley: Parallel Visions at NGV Australia, Melbourne, 31 August, 2018 – 28 January, 2019. Born forty-two days apart in 1939, Australian artists George Baldessin and …

  • Sidney Nolan

    # 51656

    PEARCE, Barry

    Sidney Nolan

    With an introduction by Edmund Capon and contributions by Frances Lindsay and Lou Klepac. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 272, illustrated. “This catalogue documents the first major Nolan retrospective since the artist’s death in London in 1992. Given the sheer quantity of works available, the selection …

  • Robert Jacks : order and variation

    # 51655

    GRANT, Kirsty et al.

    Robert Jacks : order and variation

    Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 184, illustrated. Robert Jacks: Order and Variation is a handsomely illustrated publication that surveys the artist’s work, from his student years in the 1950s and 1960s to his monumental late paintings and sculptures.

  • Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century

    # 51654

    SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)

    Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century

    With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Reprint, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly creased), pp. 162, illustrated, corner excised from half-title, signed presentation inscription from Carol Cooper on the title page. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Dreaming of you

    # 13247

    BEVAN, Will A. (words); RACHE, Bert (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Dreaming of you

    Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [1908]. Cover: “Sung with great success by Lottie Kay and Walter Whyte.” Series: Allan's popular 6d. edition, no. 211. Folio, publisher's illustrated wrappers, upper wrapper with vignette portraits of Lottie Kay and Bert Rache, original owner's signature of “Roland Thomas Esq.”, wet stamp of music seller “Miss …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Allan’s Melbourne musical magazine no. 11.

    # 13240

    ALLAN & CO.

    [SHEET MUSIC] Allan’s Melbourne musical magazine no. 11.

    Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1901].Quarto, opublisher's illustrated wrappers, 30 pp, music notation, a fine copy. 1. Why did they sell Killarney? 2. Somebody loves me 3. Bye-and-bye you will forget me 4. March! March! or blue bonnets 5. Songbirds are singing of you 6. In the valley where the old Ohio flows 7. Castles …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Albert’s American annual. No. 4

    # 13239

    ALBERT'S MUSIC STORE

    [SHEET MUSIC] Albert’s American annual. No. 4

    Sydney : Albert's Music Store, [1906]. (Note that the front cover also bears the imprint of E.W. Cole, Melbourne). Quarto, publisher's illustrated wrappers, full page colour advertisements for Albert's on lower wrapper and inside wrappers, [41] pp, music notation; a fine copy. 1. I'm trying hard to forget you /​ Chas. K. Harris 2. Barney …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] La Carita (Tempo di Marcia).

    # 9694

    LORRAINE Paul

    [SHEET MUSIC] La Carita (Tempo di Marcia).

    Melbourne : Allan & Co., c.1908. Folio, illustrated cover with lithographed portrait of a young gypsy woman by W. George (front cover detached, with wet stamp of T.L. Hood Music seller, Hobart, and ownership inscription blacked out), 7 pp of musical notation (pencilled annotations), plus extracts from other pieces on inner rear and rear covers. Unrecorded …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Every little movement

    # 9693

    HAUERBACH, Oscar (lyrics); HOSCHNA, Karl L. (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Every little movement

    Cover: Sung in J.C. Williamson's production of the musical play The Night Birds staged by C. Wenman. Melbourne : Allan & Co, 1910. Folio, illustrated cover with inset portrait of English actress and musical comedy star Sybil Arundale, who was to tour Australia in 1912-13 (bookseller's label of A.W. Birchall & Sons, Launceston, and original ownership …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Everybody works but father

    # 16396

    HAVEZ, Jean

    [SHEET MUSIC] Everybody works but father

    Melbourne and Sydney : Stanley Mullen, [1905]. Folio, pictorial front cover inscribed ‘Mr. Roland Thomas’; [5] pp of music notation, including advertisements for compositions on verso of front and rear covers; rear cover with publisher’s advertisement; a good copy. A copy is held in the National Library of Australia.  

  • [SHEET MUSIC] I'm afraid to come home in the dark

    # 16392

    WILLIAMS, Harry (lyrics); VAN ALSTYNE, Egbert (score)

    [SHEET MUSIC] I’m afraid to come home in the dark

    Melbourne and Sydney : Stanley Mullen, [1908]. Folio, pictorial front cover inscribed ‘Mr Roland Thomas’, [6] pp of music notation, including two shorter compositions inside front and rear covers; rear cover with publisher’s advertisement; a good copy. Copies are held in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.  

  • [SHEET MUSIC] It's the pretty things you say

    # 16406

    BRYAN, Alfred (lyrics); SNYDER, Ted (score)

    [SHEET MUSIC] It’s the pretty things you say

    Sydney : D. Davis & Co, [1908]. Folio, pictorial front cover inscribed ‘Roland Thomas, Port Melbourne’, [4] pp of music notation; rear cover with publisher’s advertisement for another composition; a very fine copy. A copy is held in the National Library of Australia.