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  • Modernism and Feminism : Australian women artists 1900-1940

    # 47051

    TOPLISS, Helen

    Modernism and Feminism : Australian women artists 1900-1940

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1996. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 232, illustrated. A fine copy. “This book answers the question posed by a number of male art historians and critics: ‘Why were there so many influential women artists in the inter-war period?’ The book establishes a female context for women’s art in Australia and demonstrates …

  • The art of Charles Blackman

    # 47050

    [BLACKMAN]. SHAPCOTT, Thomas.

    The art of Charles Blackman

    London: Andre Deutsch, 1989. Folio, cloth in dustjacket (light wave), a touch of offsetting to endpapers, 266 pages profusely illustrated in colour. The major monograph on the artist. A very good copy.

  • Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic

    # 47049

    HICKS, Petrina; CROMBIE, Isobel; QUIRK, Maria

    Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2019. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated. Fine copy. Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic is the first in-depth study of the work of Australian artist Petrina Hicks. Since 2003, Hicks has developed a highly distinctive body of work that combines her background as a commercial photographer with her interest …

  • Light sensitive : contemporary Australian photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund

    # 47048

    SMORGON, Loti & Victor

    Light sensitive : contemporary Australian photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (illustrated with a photograph by Petrina Hicks), pp. 112, illustrated with works by Brook Andrew, Darren Sylvester, Patricia Piccinini, Matthew Sleethe, Scott Redford, Pat Brassington, Deborah Paauwe and others.

  • Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number sixty-six.

    # 47045

    Sydney Ure Smith.

    Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number sixty-six.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1937. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers with Margaret Preston design, 88pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, very clean internally, a fine copy. Features articles on Arthur Streeton’s recent works, the Archibald Competition, Mary Edwards. Also includes colour and black and …

  • Art in Australia (complete set)

    # 47043

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia (complete set)

    Art in Australia. Series 1, No. 1 – Series 4, No. 6 (1916 – 1942). Completes set. Series 1 (11 issues, quarto), Series 2 (2 issues, large quarto), Series 3 (80 issues, quarto), Series 4 (6 issues, large quarto). Illustrated wrappers, occasional chipping and flecking, extensively illustrated, tipped-in plates, a very good set. The most …

  • Ffarington's folio : South West Australia, 1843-1847

    # 46996

    DUFOUR, Gary

    Ffarington’s folio : South West Australia, 1843-1847

    Perth, W.A. : Art Gallery of Western Australia, c1986. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 38, illustrated. Colonial paintings including indigenous subjects.

  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

    # 47040

    MADDISON, Ruth

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

    Melbourne : Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2021. Octavo, illustrated gatefold wrappers, unpaginated, approx. 200 pp., illustrated. A fine copy, as new. Scarce. ‘Spanning close to 200 pages, this landmark publication sits alongside Maddison’s exhibition as a key survey of her social documentary practice from 1976 to the current day. Covering key periods within Maddison’s extensive …

  • Queen Elizabeth II : signed photograph ("Elizabeth R"), also signed by Prince Philip. 1955.

    # 47037

    [ADAMS, Marcus]

    Queen Elizabeth II : signed photograph (“Elizabeth R”), also signed by Prince Philip. 1955.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, on its original plain card mount signed in fountain pen in the bottom margin by both Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth R) and Prince Philip (Philip) with the date 1955 in between the two signatures; the photograph is in fine condition; the royal signatures are both strong and …

  • Stars in the river : the prints of Jessie Traill

    # 47038

    TRAILL, Jessie

    Stars in the river : the prints of Jessie Traill

    edited by Roger Butler ; with essays by Tim Bonyhady, Rebecca Edwards, Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax and Macushla Robinson. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Gallery of Australia, 2013. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. Includes a reproduction of Traill’s bookplate. This eagerly awaited publication celebrates the artistic career of one of Australia’s most important printmakers of the …

  • Daguerreotype portrait of a young woman.

    # 43401

    [Photographer unknown].

    Daguerreotype portrait of a young woman.

    [U.S.A., 1860-65]. Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 57 mm (sight); in excellent condition, in the original large oval brass mat, housed in the original octagon thermoplastic case with geometric design (Berg 3-218).  

  • Daguerreotype portrait of two sisters with arms linked.

    # 43404

    [Photographer unknown].

    Daguerreotype portrait of two sisters with arms linked.

    [U.S.A., 1850-55]. Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 60 x 70 mm (sight); in excellent condition in the original nonpareil brass mat, housed in the original in a leather case with geometric design (working brass clasp).

  • Daguerreotype portrait of a young brother and sister.

    # 43382

    [Photographer unknown].

    Daguerreotype portrait of a young brother and sister.

    [U.S.A., 1850-55]. Sixth plate daguerreotype with applied colour, 70 x 60 mm (sight); in excellent condition in the original nonpareil brass mat, housed in the original leather case with floral and geometric designs (two working brass clasps).

  • The Hunter sketchbook : birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90

    # 46913

    CALABY, John (editor)

    The Hunter sketchbook : birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90

    By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet ; general editor John Calaby. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1988. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. [viii], 251, illustrated with exquisite paintings recording the fauna and flora around Sydney and on Norfolk Island.

  • Une Australienne. Hilda Rix Nicholas : in Paris, Tangier & Sydney

    # 46914

    HOORN, Jeanette et al.

    Une Australienne. Hilda Rix Nicholas : in Paris, Tangier & Sydney

    Mosman : Mosman Art Gallery, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, illustrated. Scarce. ‘Hilda Rix Nicholas was an Australian painter of great ambition who established her career in the early decades of the 20th century both internationally and in Australia. Classically trained in the studios of Paris she became part of the artist colony in …

  • [KNGWARREYE]. Utopia : Women, country and batik

    # 47031

    GREEN, Jenny

    [KNGWARREYE]. Utopia : Women, country and batik

    Written and illustrated by Jenny Green. [Utopia, N.T.] : Utopia Womens’ Batik Group, [1981]. Quarto, screenprinted wrappers (light edge wear and handling marks), pp. [25], illustrated with portraits of the artists and the landscape. ‘This publication was produced for an exhibition of batik from Utopia initially presented at the Adelaide Festival Centre Gallery in October, …