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# 50490
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1922)
Study for ‘Inferno’ c. 1966
Coloured crayons on card, 20 x 20 cm (image), 33 x 25 cm (sheet), signed in pencil lower right. A study for the major nine panel work ‘Inferno’ currently on long term loan from the The Estate of Lady Nolan to the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery. ‘Nolan immersed himself in the myths of the …
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# 50502
[LINDSAY, Norman]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).
Norman Lindsay: 80 Years of Pencil Drawings.
Bungendore : Odana Editions, 2008. Quarto, pictorial boards (very small bump to one corner), 335 pages, profusely illustrated; a new copy. During his long creative life Norman Lindsay produced works in many media, but pencil was the only one he used continuously from childhood to old age. The earliest drawing reproduced in this book was …
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# 50501
KNGWARREYE, Emily Kame
Earth’s creation : the paintings of Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Melbourne : Malakoff Fine Art Press (Laurine Diggins Fine Art), 1998. Quarto (295 x 205 mm), pictorial wrappers, pp. 16, [1]; colour illustrations (including folding plates); an excellent copy. Catalogue produced for a Laurine Diggins Fine Art exhibition, with numerous colour illustrations, an essay Taking Charge: The Art of Emily Kame Kngwarreye by Daniel Thomas, …
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# 50499
[KNGWARREYE]. ISAACS, Jennifer et al.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye : paintings
With contributions by Jennifer Isaacs, Terry Smith, Judith Ryan, Donald Holt & Janet Holt. Sydney : Craftsman House, 1998. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 204, illustrated in colour throughout, a fine copy of this scholarly publication, scarce. Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c. 1910-1996) was a senior member of the Anmatyerre community resident at Utopia, a former …
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# 50498
MAYNARD, John
True light and shade : an aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett’s art
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. Out of print, a fine copy. ‘True light and shade’ is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how they …
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# 50488
EDWARDS, Rebecca
Anne Dangar
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2024. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 264, illustrated. Scarce.
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# 50496
[VASSILIEFF]. ST JOHN MOORE, Felicity.
Vassilieff and his art.
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2012. (First published 1982). Quarto, gatefold wrappers, 232 pp., illustrated. Mint copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap.
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# 50494
GRANT, Kirsty et al.
John Brack (hardcover edition)
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2009. Quarto, green cloth with pictorial inlay (lightly marked), 248 pp. fully illustrated. Contributions by Helen Brack, Sasha Grishin, Robert Lindsay and Chris McAuliffe. The scarce hardcover, printed in an edition of 1000 copies and sold only at the NGV shop. Printed to accompany the major touring retrospective of …
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# 50491
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1922)
Study for ‘Mrs. Fraser’ c. 1966
Coloured crayons on card, 27 x 25.5 cm (image), 33 x 25 cm (sheet), signed in pencil centre right. A study, or abstracted variation for the major the 1947 painting of Mrs Fraser, a theme Nolan would return to in the 1960s and 70s. ‘A female figure representing a certain Mrs Fraser … has the …
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# 50487
ELLEM, Barry and BUCKMASTER, Norman
Art by Ernest Buckmaster
Foreword by Sir William Dargie. Melbourne : Evelyn Fine Arts, 1993. Quarto, cloth in slipcase, pp. 150 illustrated in colour. Limited to 1000 copies signed by Norman Buckmaster. Three reproductions loosely enclosed, along with a catalogue of a show of Buckmaster’s work at The Windsor Hotel. A fine copy.
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# 50486
LANE, Terence (1946 - 2025)
Robert Prenzel 1866 – 1941 : his life and work
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1994. Quarto, softcovers, pp. 64, illustrated, light edge wear, a very good copy. An essential reference on this important art-nouveau Australian wood carver. Long out of print, this is a scarce copy.
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# 50485
PULLIN, Ruth
Eugene von Guerard. Nature revealed
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine sunned and creased, pp. 302, extensively illustrated, a good copy.
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# 50484
GROOM, Linda
First Fleet artist. George Raper’s birds & plants of Australia
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2009. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 146, slight sunning to spine. Natural history and topographical art from the First Fleet.
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# 50483
EMMETT, Peter
Fleeting encounters : pictures & chronicles of the First Fleet
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 132, illustrated.
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# 50482
HAMMOND, Victoria
A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s
Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine slightly sunned, pp. 96, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue of works by female Australian artists between 1840 and 1940. Features an essay by Victoria Hammond. Includes works by May Gibbs, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague, Grace Crowley, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Ruby Lind, Olive Cotton, Ethel Carrick …
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# 50481
HILDER, J. J.
The Hilder memorial exhibition catalogue
Melbourne : The Fine Art Society, 1917. Quarto, printed card wrappers, string bound, pp. [10], essay by Sydney Ure Smith, colour plate, catalogue of 128 works, scattered foxing. Scarce.