Daughters of the sun. Christian Waller & Klytie Pate (deluxe edition)

Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2018. Folio, gilt-lettered green cloth, pp. [iv]; 117, (3), fully illustrated, including fold out plates.

Lavishly produced exhibition catalogue for the first major retrospective on the two Melbourne artists (aunt and niece) in several decades. Includes Waller’s magnificent art deco publications The great breath  and The gates of dawn as well as the ceramics of Klytie Pate. Printed in a small run for the exhibition at the Bendigo Art Gallery, the publication sold out during the show.

This the deluxe edition, printed in an edition of only 50 copies (this is number 16/50), which contains an additional green cloth portfolio housing two reproduction prints from Christian Waller’s great illustrated work ‘The Great Breath’, The Lords of Venus and The Magician of the Beautiful, housed in a custom green cloth slipcase lettered in blind.

Very scarce and sought after.