SOME AUSTRALIAN ART BOOKS IN STOCK - January 2019

 

1              ABBOTT-SMITH, Nourma. IAN FAIRWEATHER. Profile of an artist. St. Lucia. University of Qld Press. 1978. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 170pp. (some foxing) to top edge. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Originally a British painter, Ian Fairweather became an outstanding Australian artist. Named as Australia's greatest living painter in 1960. Escaping internment during WWI he became a hermit of sorts.   #176053              $45

2              ALLEN, Christopher. JEFFREY SMART. Unpublished paintings 1940 - 2007. Collingwood. Aust Galleries Publ. 2008. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 285pp. col ills. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Inscribed by the author and the artist. Jeffrey Smart's lucid and impassive paintings of cities and roads convey a vivid sense of human experience in a modern urban setting. This new book collects his unpublished paintings for the first time   #171481            $275

3              ALLEN, Christopher. JEFFREY SMART. Unpublished paintings 1940 - 2007. Collingwood. Aust Galleries Publ. 2008. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 285pp. col ills. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Inscribed by the author and the artist. Jeffrey Smart's lucid and impassive paintings of cities and roads convey a vivid sense of human experience in a modern urban setting. This new book collects his unpublished paintings for the first time   #176805            $255

4              AMADIO, Nadine. THE PASSIONATE JOURNEY. David Boyd Retrospective. Images from 1935 to 2004. St. Peters. May Street Galleries. 2004. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 127pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Born in Melbourne in 1924, David Boyd was taught painting & pottery by his parents, Merric & Doris Boyd. This retrospective exhibition focuses on his monolithic paintings from 1935 to 2004.   #179073                $40

5              ANTHONY HORDERN'S FINE ART GALLERIES. R - BALSON - /41. Ralph Balson's 1941 Exhibition at Anthony Hordern's Fine Art Galleries. Paddington. Ivan Dougherty Gallery. 2008. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 43pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. In 2008, Director of the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Nick Waterlow recreated Sydney modernist painter Ralph Balson's landmark 1941 exhibition as it had appeared. The first non-objective art show in Aust.   #178720                     $35

6              APPLETON, Jean. A LIFETIME WITH ART.  Syd. Caroline Simpson. 1998. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. With col & b/w ills. Owners inscription on ffe. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by Jean Appleton. Born in Sydney in 1911, Australian artist Jean Appleton's career began when she became a full time student at East Sydney Technical College in the late 1920's.   #170623       $75

7              (ARKLEY, Howard.) CARNIVAL IN SUBURBIA. The Art of Howard Arkley. By John Gregory. Melb. Cambridge University Press. 2006 Folio. Col.ill.bds. Thick plastic dustjacket. 214pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. Fine. 1st ed. Very Scarce.    #172977              SOLD

8              ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. TRADITION TODAY. Indigenous art in Australia. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2004. 8vo. Col.Ill.soft bds. 204pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st softback ed. Tradition Today offers a fresh insight into the history of contemporary life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Each essay draws on a biographical account of an artists life.   #173010         $38

9              ASTBURY, Leigh. CITY BUSHMEN. The Heidelberg School and the Rural Mythology. Melb. Oxford University Press. 1985. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 216pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Heidelberg School has long been seen as the golden age of national idealism in Australian painting. Leigh Astbury examines the movement's role in the development of an Australian rurual mythology.   #178721             $40

10           ASTBURY, Leigh. SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW. Australian Impressionist Painters 1880 - 1900. Syd. Bay Books. 1989. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket (sl rubbed) 232pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Following on from the Colonial Painting period, a new generation of painters held their own 9 x 5 Impression Exhibition in a Melbourne salesroom in 1889, & started the Australian Impressionist movement   #180181                  $36

11           AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY DRILL HALL GALLERY. CROSSING CULTURES. Art from The Boxer Collection. Canberra. ANU. 2000. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 44pp. col ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Alan Boxer was an academic & art collector who's art was exhibited at the Drill Hall in 2000. It is a collection that contains many Indigenous art pieces as well as works by Boyd, Olsen, Tucker & Nolan   #177606                  $24

12           Art Gallery of NSW. THE DOBELL PRIZE FOR DRAWING. The first ten years. 1993 - 2002. Syd. AGNSW. 2003. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 48pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Set up by the Dobell Foundation, the Dobell Prize for Drawing was set up to ensure the recognition of the art of drawing in Australia, & to develop a strong & pertinent collection of drawings.   #176060                 $22

13           BABINGTON, Jaklyn. SPACE INVADERS. Australian Street / Stencils / Posters / Paste-Ups / Zines / Stickers. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2010. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 128pp. + 48pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Off the street, & into the gallery. A curated exhibition of a decade of Australian street art from the alley to the gallery. Stencils, paste-ups, stickers, & zines began appearing in the late 90s.   #180922                     $40

14           BAIL, Murray. IAN FAIRWEATHER.  Syd. Bay Books. 1981. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 264pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. Murray Bail weaves a comprehensive & sympathetic appraisal of the life & art of Ian Fairweather. A solitary & migratory figure in the Australian art firmament. From a WWI POW to art schools in Europe.   #173725          $335

15           BALDASSARI, Anne. & SAUNIER, Philippe. (Ed). PICASSO & HIS COLLECTION.  South Brisbane. Qld Art Gallery. 2008. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 311pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Published to accompany an exhibition of Pablo Picasso's personal art collection held at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2008. It features many of the art & objects that inspired him over his career.   #174151         $40

16           BALDASSARI, Anne. PICASSO & HIS COLLECTION.  Syd. Arts Exhibitions Australia. 2008. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 311pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Pablo Picasso amassed a collection of art over his long career. A substantial & Idiosyncratic art collection from the 19th & 20th centuries as well as African & Oceanic objects & Iberian sculpture.   #180554        $45

17           BALDASSARI, Anne. & SAUNIER, Philippe. (Ed). PICASSO & HIS COLLECTION.  South Brisbane. Qld Art Gallery. 2008. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 311pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Published to accompany an exhibition of Pablo Picasso's personal art collection held at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2008. It features many of the art & objects that inspired him over his career.   #180926         $40

18           BALNAVES, Neil & Diane. (Ed). WILDERNESS - BALNAVES CONTEMPORARY PAINTING.  Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2010. 4to. Or.bds. 138pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Balnaves Foundation presents a biennial exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW that surveys the latest developments in contemporary Australian art. Artists such as Del Kathryn Barton were showcased.   #180555           $40

19           BARDON, Geoffrey & James. PAPUNYA. A Place Made After the Story. The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement. Melb. Miegunyah Press. 2005. (2nd imp) Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 527pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. A first-hand account of the artists and works emanating from Papunya.   #172607              $95

20           BAYER, Patricia. ART DECO SOURCE BOOK.  Leichhardt. Quantum Books Ltd. 1997. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 192pp. (sl foxing) to first few pages. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Art Deco Source Book attempts to clarify the distinctive use of motifs in this highly eclectic & very international style. Originating out of the 1925 Exposition in Paris, it inspired designers.   #176062               $33

21           BEILHARZ, Peter. IMAGINING THE ANTIPODES. Culture, theory and the visual in the work of Bernard Smith. Cambridge. Cambridge Uni Press. 1997. 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 216pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. Very good copy. 1st ed. Bernard Smith was considered one of the most eminent art historians of the 20th century. Smith sold much of his art collection to fund one of the first art prizes for Aboriginal artists.   #176840           $38

22           BELL, Pamela. MARGO LEWERS. Retrospective. Syd. National Trust of Australia. 2002. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 64pp. With col ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. A catalogue from the Margo Lewers Retrospective Exhibition at the S. H. Ervine Gallery in 2002. With many lavish colour reproductions of her work. Includes a list of works in the exhibition.   #170657            $27

23           BELL, Robert. BALLETS RUSSES. The Art of Costume. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2010. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 264pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Sergei Diaghilev created the dynamic avant-garde dance company, Ballet Russes, in 1909. Bringing together some of the greatest visual artists of the 20th century. A catalogue from the NGA exhibition.   #174160             $45

24           BENNETT, James & NEWLAND, Amy Reigle. THE GOLDEN JOURNEY: JAPANESE ART FROM AUSTRALIAN COLLECTIONS.  Adel. AGSA. 2009. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 348pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Cancelled ex-lib sticker on t.p, else a very good copy. 1st ed. Depicts beautiful collections of Buddhist & Shinto art, screens & scroll paintings, woodblock prints, decorative arts.   #173763               $30

25           (BLACKMAN, Charles) CHARLES BLACKMAN. Exhibition Catalogue. Paddington. Savill Galleries. 2000. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. unpag. (12pp.) Profusely illustrated in colour. Small piece cut from corner of front wrapper else a very good copy. Annotated with prices.    #174881               $24

26           BLACKMAN, Charles. THROUGH THE WINDOW. Savill Galleries. 21 March - 18 April 2000. Paddington. Savill Galleries. 2000. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 8pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. Blackman studied art at East Sydney Technical College in 1943, although he is mostly self taught. Best known for his Alice in Wonderland series, & the Schoolgirl series that won critical acclaim.   #178732                    $27

27           BLOOMFIELD, Lin. NORMAN LINDSAY. Impulse to Draw. Syd. Bay Books. 1984. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 223pp. (sl foxing) & marks to foredge & some pages. Name on half title page. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. During his long and creative life, Norman Lindsay produced work in many media, but pencil was the only one he used continuously from childhood to old age. A selection of 280 of his finest pencil works.   #173022       $65

28           BLOOMFILED, Lin. NORMAN LINSAY. IMPULSE TO DRAW.  Syd. Bay Books. 1984. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. Or.cl. 223pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Born in 1879, Norman Lindsay began drawing as a child, with pencil being the only medium he used throught his career. A prolific artist, his drawings were often sketches for his larger oil paintings.   #178733          $95

29           BODROGI, Tibor. ART IN NORTH-EAST NEW GUINEA.  Budapest. 1961. Oblong 4to. Or.cl. d.w. 227pp. 8 col plates & 232 b/w ills. Top corner sl bumped else a Nice copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Published by the Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The author was Director of the Ethnographical Museum, Budapest.   #172981                   $125

30           BOLT, Frank. OLD HOBART TOWN TODAY.  Hobart. Waratah Publications. 1981. Oblong 8vo. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 256pp. Some wear to dj. Prof.ill. b/w ills. Very good copy. 2nd edition. Frank Bolt's monumental photographic survey of Old Hobart Town attempts to portray the remnants of early Hobart Town. A pictorial documentation of Australia's 2nd oldest town.   #172640                $40

31           BONYHADY, Tim. BURKE & WILLS. From Melbourne to Myth. Canberra. National Library of Aust. 2002. Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 49pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Tim Bonyhady examines the many & varied artistic responses to the Burke & Wills expedition in 1860 as they attempted to cross the continent from south to north. Only John King survied the expedition.   #177613        $33

32           BONYHADY, Tim. IMAGES IN OPPOSITION. Australian Landscape Painting 1801 - 1890. Melb. Oxford University Press. 1985. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 192pp. Col.plates & b/w ills. Dj unevenly faded else a very good copy. 1st ed. In 1800 the European population of Australia was less than 6,000, with one in ten colonist being a free settler. Colonial artists provided landscapes for prominent citizens for ostentatious display.   #178735             $40

33           BOWDEN, K. M. CAPTAIN JAMES KELLY OF HOBART TOWN.  Parkville. Melbourne Uni Press. 1964. Or.cl. 126pp. Some flecking to cloth on front board & spine. Liquid paper mark on ffe. b/w plates. Good copy. 1st ed. James Kelly was born in Parramatta in 1791, & was first apprenticed as a seaman in 1804. He became the first Australian born master mariner to circumnavigate Tasmania, discovering Port Davey in 1815.   #180933            $27

34           BOYD, Arthur. ETCHINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS. Introduction by Imre von Maltzahn. Lond. Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd 1971. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 114pp. (some foxing) Some colour & many b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. Arthur Boyd left school at 14, & spend several years living on the Mornington Peninsual with his grandfather, the landscape painter Arthur Merric Boyd, who nurtured his artistic talent.   #178357     $50

35           BOYD, Arthur. FIVE DECADES. Savill Galleries. 19 September - 23 October 1991. Paddington. Saville Galleries. 1991. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 20pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. Featuring a selection of landscapes from various periods from Arthur Boyd's five decade career. The early landscapes seem quite scholarly compared to the later landscapes, with their easy feel.   #178739     $25

36           BOYD, Arthur. A TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR BOYD. Introduction by Tom Rosenthal. Paddington. Savill Galleries. 1999. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 38pp. Profusely illustrated in colour with a fold-out colour page. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. A tribute exhibition of Arthur Boyd's work as organised by the Saville Galleries. Boyd died in April 1999 & left behind a large body of landscapes, a portion of which are represented here.   #178740           $24

37           BOYD, Arthur. WORKS DATING FROM 1937 TO 1989. 29 September to 30 October 1993. Paddington. Savill Galleries. 1993. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 34pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. With price list and other exhibition ephemera. A selection of works by Arthur Boyd from 1937 to 1989 that were exhibited at the Savill Galleries in Paddington. Starting with a 1937 landscape of Back Beach in Victoria & recent Shoalhaven landscapes.   #178741        $40

38           BOYD, Arthur & PORTER, Peter. JONAH.  Lond. Secker & Warburg. 1973. Or.cl. Dustjacket with Boyd illustration. Many b/w ills. Inscription partly erased from ffe else a very good copy. 1st ed.    #173369     $33

39           (BOYD, Arthur.) ARTHUR BOYD DRAWINGS, 1934-1970. Foreword by Laurie Thomas. Catalogue by Christopher Tadgell. Lond. Secker & Warburg. 1973. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 10 tipped-in colour plates & 75 b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed.    #172642                $75

40           (BOYD, Arthur). PHILIPP, Franz. ARTHUR BOYD.  Lond. Thames and Hudson. 1967. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 288pp. Col & b/w plates the colour plates tipped-in. Very good copy. 1st ed. Arthur Boyd's art deals mainly with humanitarian issues & the universal themes of love, loss, & shame. As a member of the Melbourne based Antipodean group of painters, he travelled to London in 1959.   #178307              $175

41           (BOYD, Arthur.) ARTHUR BOYD. [By] Franz Philipp. With 44 colour plates and 134 monochrome plates. Lond. Thames and Hudson. 1967. 4to. Or.cl. d.w. 288pp. 44 tipped-in Col.plates & 134 b/w plates. A very good copy. Signed by Arthur Boyd. 1st ed. Scarce. The standard reference on Boyd.   #179417           $395

42           BRANDON, L. STANLEY, P. TOLSON, R. & WILKINS, L. SHARED EXPERIENCE - ART & WAR. Australia, Britain & Canada in the Second World War. Canberra. Australian War Memorial. 2005. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 108pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. A collaborative exhibition of war art from the British, Canadian & Australian War Museums that bring together fine examples of Second Wrld War art for an exhibition at the AMW in Canberra in 2005.   #179083         $27

43           BRIEN, Donna Lee. & SPATE, Virginia. JOHN POWER. 1881 - 1943. Artist and Benefactor. Syd. Musuem of Contemporary Art. 1991. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 39pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Dr John Power was an artist, author, surgeon, scientist, & benefactor. Independently wealthy, he was an exceptional benefactor who set up far reaching bequests for universities & galleries   #176851                    $24

44           BRODSKY, Isadore. HEART OF THE ROCKS OF OLD SYDNEY.  Syd. Old Sydney Free Press. 1965. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 147pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the author. Isadore Brodsky delves into the fascinating history of The Rocks. Once a place of wickedness & degeneracy, as the sailors that disembarked sought strong liqour & the call of flesh after months at sea.   #178743                 $45

45           BRODY, Annemarie. KUNWINJKU BIM. Western Arnhem Land paintings from the collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board. Melb. National Gallery of Victoria. 1984. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 80pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. In 1974, the Aboriginal Arts Board acquired a major collection of Oenpelli paintings from the Anglican Church Missionary Society's Sydney gallery. Collected by Spencer & Cahill at Oenpelli in 1912.   #174168     $40

46           BROINOWSKI, Alison. THE YELLOW LADY. Australian Impressions of Asia. Melb. OUP. 1992. Roy.8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 260pp. Col.& b/w plates & b/w ills. Very Good copy. 1st paperback ed. The first major critique of Australian art's impressions of Asia, tracing the history Australian ideas about Asia & the Pacific from pre-Colonial times to the present.   #177984                     $24

47           BROWN, Tony & WINTER, Gillian. FIRST VIEWS OF LAKE ST CLAIR. John Skinner Prout (1845) & Morton Allport (1862). West Hobart. Pear Tree Press. 2011. Oblong. 157pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. When artist John Skinner Prout arrived in Hobart with his family in 1844, one of the people who welcomed his arrival was Mary Morton Allport, Australia's first professional woman artists.   #171095       $55

48           BURKE, Janine. THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. Albert Tucker's photographs. Bulleen. Museum of Modern Art Heide 1998. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 72pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white & colour. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. A selection of photographs taken by Heide Group artist, Albert Tucker. These personal & intimate photos document his time at Heidelberg with many of the modern artists with whome he lived & painted.   #174885            $40

49           BURKE, Janine. FIELD OF VISION. A decade of change: Women's art in the Seventies. Ringwood. Viking. 1990. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 148pp. Col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Field of Vision documents the work of 16 of Australia's most innovative artists. Artists such as Rosalie Gascoigne, Vicki Varvaressos, & Jenny Watson who shaped art & the women's movement in the 70s.   #174171                    $35

50           BURKE, Janine. THE HEART GARDEN. Sunday Reed and Heide. North Sydney. Vintage Books. 2005. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 552pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Sunday Baillieu was born into one of Melbourne's most prominent families. With her husband John Reed she turned her back on her privilege & created a bohemian life of her own at Heidelberg in 1934.   #176072                     $22

51           BUTLER, Roger. PRINTED. Images in colonial Australia 1801 - 1901. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2007. Folio. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 294pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. A collection of prints from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia that focuses on the history of printmaking in Australia during its foundational period.   #171866                    $75

52           CALLAWAY, Anita. VISUAL EPHEMERA. Theatrical art in nineteenth-century Australia. Syd. UNSW Press. 2000. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 227pp. (sl foxing) to page edges. Owners name on ffe. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scrupulously researched and beautifully written, this book documents varieties of 19th century Australian visual culture that till now have remained unnoticed. From naked women to wonderful illusions.   #171868                    $45

53           CAMPBELL, Jean. GEORGE LAWRENCE. An illustrated biography with text by Jean Campbell. Syd. Australian Artist Editions. 1980. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 127pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. George Lawrence was a member of the Society of Artists, & was one of the foremost painters in the impressionist style. Studying under Julian Ashton, he later studied in London & Paris.   #174504                   $40

54           CAMPBELL, Jean. GEORGE LAWRENCE. An illustrated biography with text by Jean Campbell. Syd. Australian Artist Editions. 1980. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 127pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. George Lawrence was a member of the Society of Artists, & was one of the foremost painters in the impressionist style. Studying under Julian Ashton, he later studied in London & Paris.   #178368                   $40

55           CAMPBELL, Jean. JAMES CANT & DORA CHAPMAN. With an introduction by Ron Radford and a memoir by Malcolm Otton. Syd. The Beagle Press. 1995. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author Jean Campbell.    #176808          $125

56           CAPON, Edmund. & YANG, Liu. THE LOST BUDDHAS. Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from Qingzhou. Lond. Art Gallery of NSW. 2008. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1996 an archaeological find was discovered in the city of Qingzhou by construcion workers. 400 stone Buddhist sculptures were unearched after remaining untouched for 900 years. An exhibition cat.   #177991             $33

57           CARLONE, Pio. POOR FOOD.  Syd. Pio Carlone. 1982. 4to. Spiral bound. Col.Ill.wrapps. covered in plastic. 22pp. (sl foxing) to pages. Crack to plastic binding. b/w ills. Good copy. Number 10 of 200 copies. Signed by the artist. Pio Carlone left Italy for Australia in 1976, & as an artist held many one man shows of his seascapes, still life & portrait paintings. This cookbook was for sale at his 1982 exhibition in Sydney.   #177627       $30

58           CARTER, Michael. & GECZY, Adam. REFRAMING ART.  Syd. UNSW Press. 2006. Col.Ill.wrapps. 239pp. col plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Reframing Art is an introduction to the concepts relating to art history & theory. Arts value systems are examined, as well as the concept of art display, & the commodification of art.   #177993                  $30

59           CATALANO, Gary. THE SOLITARY WATCHER. Rick Amor and his Art. Carlton Sth. Melb University Press. 2001. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 199pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. Dustjacket covered in plastic. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Rick Amor was born in Frankston in 1948, & studied art at the Caulfield Institute of Technology & the National Gallery School in Melbourne. His work is heavily influenced by surrealism & symbolism.   #179442            $100

60           CHANIN, Eileen & MILLER, Steven. AWAKENING FOUR LIVES IN ART.  Adel. Wakefield Press. 2015. Or.ill.wrapps. 230pp. Col.plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. The story of four women of the arts, born in Victoria between 1867 and 1893 who lived through the changes which swept across life, culture and art during the early 20th century.   #173774              $33

61           CHAPMAN, Christopher. INNER WORLDS.  Portraits & Psychology. Canberra. National Portrait Gallery 2011. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 218pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Bound-in marker ribbon. Very good copy. In a slip-case. 1st ed. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, the works here examine the influence of European Surrealism on Australian artists of the 1930s & 1940s.   #177210                     $33

62           CHRISTO. CHRISTO. JOHN KALDOR ART PROJECT 1990.  Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 1990. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 230pp. sl.foxing to top edge. corner. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. An exhibition of the work & design of Bulgarian environmental artist Christo & Jeanne-Claude. Christo was invited to Australia in 1969, where he wrapped part of Sydney's coast. A retrosepctive of sorts   #176855                   $40

63           CLARK, Jane. NOLAN. Sidney Nolan. Landscapes & Legends. Melb. Cambridge University Press. 1987. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 176pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Born in the working class suburb of Carlton, Sidney Nolan left school at 14, & attended night classes at the National Gallery Art School. His landscapes are adorned with figures from Australian history.   #178755       $40

64           COBURN, John. COBURN - PAINTINGS. Text by Nadine Amadio. Roseville, N.S.W. 1988. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 205pp. Profusely illustrated in colour.  Fine. 1st ed. A selection of some of John Coburn's finest paintings.   #179443                     $65

65           COCHRANE, Grace. PATRICK HALL.  Fishermans Bend. Craftsman House. 2004. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 64pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Patrick Hall is a Hobart based artist whose works span furniture making, public art, & sculpture. Combining cabinet making with etching & printmaking his works often have a poetic & intangible quality.   #174890                     $40

66           (CONNOR, Kevin) KEVIN CONNOR. By Barry Pearce. Syd. Craftsman House. 1989. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 150pp. Many col & b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. "This book shows the long visual development and struggles of one of Australia's most individual artists."   #176082              $45

67           COULTHART, Ross. CHARLES BEAN.  Syd. Harper Collins. 2014. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 436pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1890, a ten year old Charles Bean was taken by his father to the battlefield of Waterloo. Fascinated by the relics of the famous battle, Bean went on to report & document Australia's role in WWI.   #178762     $47

68           COURT, Sibella. GYPSY. A world of colour & interiors. Syd. Harpers Collins Publishers. 2013. 4to. Or.dec.bds with cloth bound spine. 267pp. with many col ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Gypsy shows you how to put together colour palettes from what you have around you or pieces you have picked up in your travels to create interiors layered with stories, experiences and meaning.   #170675                $55

69           CRAIG, Edward D. (Ed). AUSTRALIAN ART AUCTION RECORDS 1995-1997. Including New Zealand auctions. Volume 10. Sutherland. Australian Art Sales. 1997. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 449pp. B/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. The tenth edition of Australian Art Auction Records covering all the major art auctions in Australia from July 1995 to June 1997. With over 15,000 paintings, drawings & etchings, by over 1,500 artists.   #176860         $33

70           CREE, Laura Murray & DRURY, Nevil. (Ed). AUSTRALIAN PAINTING NOW.  St. Leonards. Craftsman House. 2000. (rep) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 344pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. Exploring the vitality of contemporary Australian painting as it enters the 21st century, it profiles the work of some eighty significant contemporary artists.   #171881           $33

71           CROOKE, Ray. ISLAND JOURNAL.  West End. Bede Publishing. 2000. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 117pp. Name on ffe. col ills & b/w maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. During a year spent in the Torress Strait in 1949, Ray Crooke kept his first island journal, an ordinary foolscap notebook which he enlivened with text, sketches and watercolour. A beautiful account.   #172232                     $95

72           CUBILLO, Franchesca. & CARUANA, Wally. ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ART. Collection highlights. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2010. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 256pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest continuing tradition of art, and one of the great artistic traditions of the world. This is a selection of the NGA's very large collection of Indigenous art.   #173032           $40

73           DE MEDICI, Ex. COLD BLOODED.  Canberra. Drill Hall Gallery, ANU. 2013. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 92pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the artist. eX de Medici is a tattoo artist, who also brings the technical fastidiousness to her painting & drawing work. This collection surveys her work with its recurent themes of skulls, guns, & mask tablues.   #179123              $40

74           DE VRIES-EVANS, Susanna. HISTORIC SYDNEY AS SEEN BY ITS EARLY ARTISTS.  Syd. Doubleday. 1987. (Rev ed.) Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Name on hf.title else a Very Good copy.    #171116                $32

75           DETTMAN, Carol. (Ed). SALTWATER. Yirrkala Bark. Paintings of Sea Country. Buku-Larrigay Mulka Centre. 1999. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 112pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. For the Yolnu people of the north-east Arnhem Land, the land & the sea combine to hold the basis of their culture. In response to the desecration of their land in 1996, 80 bark paintings were created.   #174197                   $40

76           DICKERSON, Jennifer. CHIAROSCURO. Withs illustrations by Robert Dickerson. Woollahra. Queen Street Fine Art. 2001. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 79pp. b/w ills. by Robert Dickerson. Very good copy. 1st ed. Jennifer Dickerson's poems recall her sheltered life in a Melbourne middle class family. From childhood roast dinners, to the death of her parents. With illustrations by her husband, Robert Dickerson.   #178019                 $35

77           (DOBELL, William.) THE ART OF WILLIAM DOBELL. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith. Introduction by Brian Penton. Syd. Ure Smith. 1946. Or.cl. 136pp. (a little foxing) Owner's name & bookplate on front pastedown. Col & b/w plates & ills by Dobell. Very Good copy. 1st ed. Signed by William Dobell on the title page. The work of the distinguished Australian artist.   #172261                     $175

78           DOBSON, Rosemary. FOCUS ON RAY CROOKE.  St. Lucia. Uni of Queensland Press. 1971. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 49pp. (sl foxing) col & b/w ills. Spine a little faded. Good copy. 1st ed. Ray Crooke is a provincial artist in the most exact sense of the word. He has concentrated on a limited region and made it his own. Nothing evokes the character of tropical Queensland like Ray Crooke.   #171574              $33

79           DRAFFIN, Nicholas. AUSTRALIAN WOODCUTS & LINOCUTS OF THE 1920s & 30s.  Melb. Sun Books. 1976. 4to. Col.ill.wrapps. 80pp. Some col. & many b/w plates illustrative of the genre. Very Good copy. 1st ed.    #179846             $30

80           DRURY, Nevill. (Ed). NEW ART ONE. New Directions in Contemporary Australian Art. Syd. Craftsman House. 1987. 4to. Bound in specially designed silkscreen fabric. 160pp. Profusely illustrated with Col.plates. Good copy in the slip case. One of 75 numbered & signed copies, this copy no.28.   #179444     $75

81           DRURY, Nevill. (Ed). NEW ART ONE. New Directions in Contemporary Australian Art. Seaforth. Craftsman House. 1987. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 160pp. Slight fading to dj spine. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. A selection of 34 contemporary artists from the mid eighties in Australia. Chosen from different art disciplines, they showcase the cutting edge of art as it was in 1987.   #179445           $45

82           DRURY, Nevill. PAN'S DAUGHTER. The strange world of Rosaleen Norton. Syd. Collins Australia. 1988. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 154pp. Dustjacket appears blistered with wear to edges & spine faded. Good copy. 1st ed. In the 1950s, Rosaleen Norton was popularly known as the "Witch of Kings Cross", a colourful bohemian figure from Sydney's red light district. She experimented with self-hypnosis to produce her art.   #171895           $40

83           DRURY, Nevill & VOIGT, Anna. FIRE AND SHADOW. Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Art. Syd. Craftsman House. 1999. (rep) Folio. Or.ill.wrapps. 184pp. Many Col.ills. Very good copy.    #171575       $35

84           DRYSDALE, Russell. JOURNEY AMONG MEN.  Lond. Hodder & Stoughton. 1962. 4to. Or.qt.cl. & bds. Dustjacket. 206pp. b/w. ills. by Russell Drysdale. Some foxing, else a Good copy. The scarce 1st ed. Drysdale's interpretation of travels in outback Australia.   #146843         $25

85           DUNCAN, Greg. THE WALL.  Hobart. Forty Degrees South Pty Ltd 2009. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 100pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the artist. Artist Greg Duncan created a stunning sculpture at Derwent Bridge in the heart of Tasmania, carving the history of Tasmania's harsh Central Highland region along a wooden panel 100 meters long.   #177654                   $35

86           (DUNLOP, Brian.) BRIAN DUNLOP. By Lynne Strahan.  Roseville. Craftsman House. 1990. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 188pp. 36 Col.plates & 148 b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the artist Brian Dunlop.   #176811        $90

87           DURACK, Elizabeth. THE ART OF ELIZABETH DURACK. Reproducing 60 paintings and drawings, 43 in colour. Foreword by Robert Holmes … Court. Introduction by Patrick Hutchings. Syd. A & R. 1982. Oblong 4to. 75pp. Many col & b/w plates. Very good copy.    #171579               $55

88           EAGLE, Mary. THE OIL PAINTINGS OF CHARLES CONDER. In the National Gallery of Australia. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 1997. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 79pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. After contracting syphilis in 1888, Charles Conder was spurred on by death to become an artist. After many years in Paris & London, he returned to Australia & began plein air painting in oils.   #178389              $24

89           EDWARDS, Deborah. et al. RUPERT BUNNY. Artist in Paris. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2009. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 224pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. Rupert Bunny was Australia's most successful painter in Paris, and our most recognised painter internationally. He spent 47 years in Paris and France enjoying the Parisian lifestyle and its art.   #171123       $60

90           EDWARDS, Deborah. MIMMOCCHI, Denise. SYDNEY MODERNS. Art for a new world. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2013. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 324pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Published to coincide with an exhibition of one of the most distinctive periods in Australian art history. The period between the wars saw the emergence of a distinctive form of modern art in Australia   #176869               $55

91           EDWARDS, Deborah. & MIMMOCCHI. (Ed). SYDNEY MODERNS. Art for a New World. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2013. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 324pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Sydney Moderns Exhibition highlighted the incredibly modern art that existed between the two world wars. A progressive group of artists were creating exuberant prints, paintings, sculpture & design   #178769                   $75

92           EDWARDS, Deborah. 'THIS VITAL FLESH'. The Sculpture of Rayner Hoff and His School. With an essay by Professor Virginia Spate. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 1999. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 111pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Rayner Hoff was born on the Isle of Man in 1894, the son of an stone & wood carver of Dutch descent. After surviving WWI, he became director of sculpture at the East Sydney Technical College in 1923.   #179446                    $75

93           ELLIS, Elizabeth. CONRAD MARTENS. Life & Art. Syd. State Library of NSW. 1994. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 212pp. Dustjacket  with slight creasing. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Colonial artist, Martens paintings appear in collections throughout the world, with the State Library of NSW holding the largest collection. Presented here are a fine selection from its collection.   #176095        $47

94           EMANUEL, Cedric. & RUHEN, Olaf. AUSTRALIA. This Changing Land. Text by Olaf Ruhen. Syd. Angus & Robertson. 1976. (rep) Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 124pp.Profusely illustrated in b/w. Fine. Very good copy. Cedric Emanuel's pencil drawings illustrate the ever changing face of Australia. The faces & places that have shaped the Australian story, with text by Olaf Ruhen.   #178393                $22

95           EMMETT, Peter. SYDNEY. Metropolis, suburb, harbour. Syd. Historic Houses Trust. 2000. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 184pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Published by the Historic Houses Trust in celebration of the year 2000, this book presents prints, photos, & paintings by a artists who have portrayed Sydney & its environs in various media.   #172298                     $35

96           ERBE, Gary T. (Ed.) PAUL CHING-BOR: OPPRESSIVE GLORY. A Travelling Watercolor Exhibition. Butler Institute of American Art. 2000. Col.Ill.wrapps. 44pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Long inscription by artist on ffe. Fine copy. The catalogue for the Chinese-Australian artist's first American exhibition.   #172672     $30

97           Eva Breuer Art Dealer. SIDNEY NOLAN 1917-1992.  Woollahra. Eva Breuer Art Dealer. 2007. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 85pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. An exhibition catalogue of a small exhibition of Nolan's work from the 1940s through to the 1980s. The exhibition ran at the same time as a majour museum retrospective, so is a mini-retrospective.   #173798                     $30

98           (FITZJAMES, Michael.) MICHAEL FITZJAMES DRAWINGS.  Syd. Stained Wattle Press. 1986. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 61 b/w plates. Dj sl.torn else a Very good copy. 1st ed. With an inserted Fitzjames postcard inscribed by Fitzjames.    #177235                $45

99           FLETCHER, William. WILLIAM FLETCHER. By Trevor Anderson. With the assistance of Jane Bradhurst. Foreword by John Brackenreg. Syd. Western Colour Print. n.d. (c.1983) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 96pp. Numerous col. plates. Fine. 1st ed. The Australian artist.   #173801            $30

100         FRANCE, Christine. JUSTIN O'BRIEN. Image and icon. North Ryde. Craftsman House. 1987. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 170pp. (sl foxing) to foredge. Name on ffe.col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Justin O'Brien's paintings exhibit a strong formalist quality, with a timeless quality that borrowed from art of the past. His biblical scenes have a timeless quality, at odds with the art of his time.   #173049                $45

101         FRENCH, Leonard. THE CAMPION PAINTINGS. Introduction and Annotation of Plates by Vincent Buckley. Melb. Grayflower Publications. 1962. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. (sl.torn & repaired) 104pp. 35 Col.plates. Small  tape marks to endpapers & blind name stamp on ffe else a Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Signed by Leonard French on the free endpaper.   #173730             $95

102         FRIEND, Gwen. MY BROTHER DONALD. A Memoir of Australian Artist Donald Friend. Syd. A & R. 1994. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 176pp. Col.& b/w plates. Name on ffe else a Very good copy. 1st ed. An intimate & witty portrait of one of Australia's most flamboyant & gifted artists.   #178402             $27

103         FRY, Gavin. MARGARET WOODWARD. Paintings 1950 - 2002. Selected and edited by Lou Klepac. Introduction by Gavin Fry. Lond. The Beagle Press. 2002. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 148pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Margaret Woodward was given a tour of an artists studio at the age of twelve. Falling in love with the chaos, she won a Government Scholarship to the National Art School in 1956 to study art.   #179447               $195

104         FRY, Gavin. A PRIVATE VIEW. The Australian Club collection. Introduction by Julian Beaumont. Syd. The Beagle Press. 2010. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 128pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Since its formation in 1838, the Australia Club has accumulated an art collection that stands today as one of the finest in the country. With coloured plates of some of the Clubs more significant art.   #173806              $75

105         GALBALLY, Ann. CHARLES CONDER. The last bohemian. Carlton South. Melb Uni Press. 2002. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 312pp. Dustjacket with marks. col plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Charles Conder was one of the youngest, most original and talented of the Heidelberg School of impressionist painters. He achieved a lasting reputation outside of Australia with his delicate artworks.   #171913                   $33

106         GALBALLY, Ann. CHARLES CONDER. The Last Bohemian. Carlton South. Melb Uni Press. 2003. Col.Ill.wrapps. 312pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Charles Condor was one of the youngest, and most talented members of the Heidelberg School of impressionist painters. In Paris he was influenced by Beardsley, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Oscar Wilde.   #173050                $35

107         GALBALLY, Ann. & GRAY, Anne. (Ed). LETTERS FROM SMIKE. The Letters of Arthur Streeton 1890 - 1943. Melb. Oxford University Press. 1989. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 224pp. Dj unevenly faded. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Arthur Streeton was known to his friends & family as Smike. His letters portray his personal relationships, his artistic crises, worries & triumphs, & his aspirations for Australian culture.   #178405                 $33

108         GALLETTO, Lucio. & DALE, David. THE ART OF PASTA. Artwork by Luke Sciberras. Photography by Anson Smart. Camberwell. Lantern. 2011. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 284pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Bound-in marker ribbon. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the authors. Lucio Galletto reveals his secrets for making your own perfect pasta. With detailed instructions on mixing, shaping, cutting & flavouring pasta with herbs, porcini, saffron & squid ink.   #176104                $35

109         GANAMBARR, Gunybi. GUNYBI GANAMBARR, DHURRUMUWUY MARIKA, BOLINY WANAMBI. Bark Paintings, Ceremonial Poles, Sculpture. Annandale Galleries. 2009. Roy.8vo. Dec.wrapps. 46pp. Many col & b/w ills. Fine. Edition of 1,000 copies. Includes an essay by John McDonald. Exhibition Calalogue of Aboriginal art.   #177672            $30

110         GENOCCHIO, Benjamin. (Ed). THE ART OF PERSUASION. Australian Art Criticism 1950 - 2001. Syd. Craftsman House Book. 2002. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 143pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. An anthology of modern Australian art criticism from 1950 to 2001. From the best to the worst of art criticism by art reviewers, artists, & art theorists. Art criticism is an evolving writing form.   #180246                   $27

111         GENOCCHIO, Benjamin. FIONA FOLEY. SOLITAIRE.  Annandale. Piper Press. 2001. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 96pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed. "The first publication of the work of this noted artist."   #174910                  $38

112         GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM. The Colours of Desire. Syd. International Cultural Corp. 1989. Col.Ill.wrapps. 119pp. Many Col.& b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Exhibition catalogue.   #174911                  $22

113         GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM. The Colours of Desire. Syd. International Cultural Corp. 1989. Col.Ill.wrapps. 119pp. Many Col.& b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Exhibition catalogue.   #177242                  $24

114         (GIBBS, May.) MAY GIBBS: MOTHER OF THE GUMNUTS. Her Life & Work. By Maureen Walsh. Syd. A & R. 1985. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 228pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Spine of dj sl.faded else a very good copy. 1st ed. A detailed & lavishly illustrated biography of Australia's best-loved children's author.   #173410             $48

115         GILBERT, Lionel. A GRAVE LOOK AT HISTORY. Glimpses of a vanishing form of folk art. Syd. John Ferguson Pty Ltd. 1980. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 143pp. Dj sl.rubbed. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Graveyards have always been a huge storehouse of history, & an essential part of our national heritage. The monuments, with their styles, ornamentations, & inscriptions are vast galleries of folk art.   #176107             $35

116         GLASER-HINDER, April. WHEN HEAVENS TOUCH EARTH.  Wagga Wagga. Active Print. 2014. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 80pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Australian sculptor April Glaser-Hinder has written this as a sort of pictorial autobiography dedicated to all those who have nurtured & inspired her art. Features many examples of her sculptural work.   #174915               $30

117         GLEESON, James. LANDSCAPE OUT OF NATURE. Ed. with an introduction by Lou Klepac. Syd. Beagle Press. 1987. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 112pp. 82 plates in col or b/w. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. This copy inscribed by James Gleeson to Frank O'Keefe "To Frank for his birthday - 15.6.87 from Jim."   #176815                     $395

118         GODDEN, Elaine. & MALNIC, Jutta. ROCK PAINTINGS OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA.  Frenches Forest. A H & A W Reed Ltd 1982. Oblong 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 128pp. Inscription on title page. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. In a colour illustrated slipcase. The aim of this book is to show some of the important ideas of Aboriginal history and contemporary life through rock paintings, and the focus on present controversy between their owners and politicians   #173056                   $55

119         GRANO, Suzanne. RENOIR TO PICASSO. Masterpieces from the Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris. Brisbane. Queensland Art Gallery. 2001. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 238pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A selection of Impressionist & Post-Impressionist art from the Musee de l"Orangerie in Paris that went on display at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2001. Featuring Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, Modigliani.   #176111                   $35

120         GRANT, Kirsty; BRACK, Helen; GRISHIN, Sasha et al. JOHN BRACK.  Melb. NGV. 2009. Folio. Or.Col.Ill.wrapps. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st soft cover ed. Scarce. Brack was most influential in the Australian art scene, as a painter and also for his years as the Head of the NGV School of Art, 1962 to 1968.   #172991                 $90

121         GRAY, Anne. SYDNEY LONG. The spirit of the land. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2012. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 208pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Sydney Long (1871-1955), was Australia's foremost Art Nouveau painter, & a major Symbolist. He broke new ground by seeking to convey the weird mystry of the Australian bush. A comprehensive survey.   #174209             $45

122         GRAY, Anne. (Ed). THE DIARIES OF DONALD FRIEND. Volume 1. Canberra. National Library of Aust. 2001. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 484pp. Sl.foxing to foredge. Dustjacket wrapped in plastic. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Donald Friend's reputation as one of Australia's leading modern artists was already widely acknowledged when he donated his dairies to the National Library in 1983. The first of four published.   #174917          $33

123         GRIFFEN, Peter. IN AND OUT OF ABSTRACTION.  Leichhardt. Peter Griffen. 2011. Oblong 8vo. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 88pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the artist. Australian abstract artist Peter Griffen, was born in Adelaide in 1948, & had his first show in 1972. His abstract work is created en plein air in the outback, or in his studio in Leichhard.   #180619       $40

124         GRIMWADE, Andrew. & VAUGHAN, Gerard. (Ed). GREAT PHILANTHROPISTS ON TRIAL. The art of the bequest. Carlton. The Miegunyah Press. 2006. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 179pp. Owners name on ffe. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. Limited edition. This is 76 in the 2nd numbered series of the Miegunya Volumes. Published as part of the National Gallery of Victoria's celebration of philanthropy in the visual arts of Australia, we get an overview of the various collections and bequests left to the gallery.   #171919              $45

125         GRISHIN, Sasha. GARRY SHEAD. The apotheosis of Ern Malley. Syd. Australian Galleries. 2008. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 143pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Between 2000 and 2006, Garry Shead has created some brilliant and evocative images inspired by Ern Malley in paintings, graphics and three dimensional ceramics.   #172691                     $65

126         GRISHIN, Sasha. GARRY SHEAD. The apotheosis of Ern Malley. Collingwood. Australian Galleries. 2008. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 143pp. (sl foxing) to inside of dj. Owners name on half title page. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the artist on the title page. Garry Shead is one of Australia's most highly acclaimed lyrical figurative painters who has been in the public eye since his first solo exhibition in the mid sixties. Paintings inspired by Ern Malley.   #172265               $85

127         HAAGEN, Claudia. BUSH TOYS. Aboriginal Children at Play. Canberra. Aboriginal Studies Press. 1994. 4to. Or.col.Ill.wrapps. 165pp. Many col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed.    #179876                     $38

128         HAESE, Richard. REBELS AND PRECURSORS. The revolutionary years of Australian art. Melb. Allen Lane. 1981. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 324pp. col & b/w ills. Spine of dj a little faded else a very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author and Max Harris. In the 1930s and 1940s they were Australia's 'rebels'. Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Arthur Boyd, John Perceval, Yosl Bergner, Noel Counihan and others broke through to a new art after personal struggle   #171053           $75

129         HARDING, Lesley. & MORGAN, Kendrah. MODERN LOVE. The lives of John & Sunday Reed. Melb. The Miegunyah Press. 2015. Col.Ill.wrapps. 401pp. col plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Part romance, part tragedy, the partnership of John & Sunday Reed  saw them rebell against their privileged backgrounds to nurture & create an artistic community at Heide that would become influential.   #176115            $27

130         HART, Deborah. JOHN OLSEN.  Nth. Ryde. Crafsman House. 1991. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 268pp. Dj spine sl.faded. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by John Olsen. Recognised internationally as one of Australia's most significant & accomplished artists, John Olsen's art & life is surveyed by Deborah Hart. From Ashton's art school in the 1947 to Paris & beyond.   #179449     $225

131         HART, Deborah. CLARK, Deborah. & MENDELSSOHN, J. RICHARD LARTER.  Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2008. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 184pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Richard Larter is often identified as one of Australia's recognisable pop artists. With his Pointillist style developed with the use of a syringe filled with paint. A retrospective look at his work.   #177249         $35

132         (HART, Kevin "Pro".) PRO HART. THE TRIBUTE. Text by Paul Lonergan Broken Hill. Pro Hart Art Sales. n.d. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 125pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed.    #173812                 $45

133         HEALTHY ABORIGINAL LIFE TEAM. ANANGU WAY. In the past we were happy and free from sickness; and in the future we will become strong and healthy again. Alice Springs. Nganampa Health Cncl 1991. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 88pp. & dj. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. An encounter with the Anangu people's concept of health, which embraces a rich totality of personal & social existence. Together with paintings that reflect the vibrant desert landscapes.   #176538            $35

134         HESLING, Bernard. ART RUINED MY CAREER IN CRIME.  Adelaide. Hyde Park Press. 1977. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 87pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author. Bernard Hesling's humorous autobiography about his childhood in Yorkshire, his immigration to Australia in 1928. As well as painting murals, & canvases, he was a U-Boat spotter during the war.   #178793         $45

135         HICKS, Joy Grant. INLANDER AT HEART. The story of Arch Grant. West Lakes. Seaview Press. 2009. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 459pp. Corners slightly scuffed. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. When the young Arch Grant, a newly ordained Presbyterian minister joined John Flynn's Inland Mission, he found himself at Tennant Creek in 1939, & would soon become chaplain to the troops off to war.   #176883               $45

136         (HILDER, J.J.) THE ART OF J.J.HILDER. Ed. by Sydney Ure Smith & Bertram Stevens. Syd. A & R. 1918. 4to. Or.cloth-backed bds. Dustjacket. 48pp. + 36 tipped-in colour plates, 18 b/w plates & other b/w.ills. Front hinge a little loose else a Very Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. The standard reference on Hilder.   #178048           $120

137         HOGAN, Janet. (Ed.) L.J.HARVEY AND HIS SCHOOL.  Brisbane. Qld Art Gallery. 1983. Sm.4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 111pp. Many col & b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. The work of the self-taught Queensland craftsman and artist.   #177554           $125

138         HOGG, Geoff & SHARP, Kristen. (Eds). OUTER SITE. The intercultural projects of RMIT art in public spaces. Melb. McCulloch & McCulloch. 2010. Col.ill.bds. 111pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Since the year 2000, RMIT University Public Art program has been responsible for initiating dozens of public art projects in Australia and internationally, helping to forge lings between communities.   #171928             $30

139         HOLDEN, Robert. "THE PLAGUE OF LINDSAYS." Exhibition Catalogue. Text by Robert Holden.  Springwood. N.L.Gallery & Museum. 1986. Folio. Ill.wrapps. unpag. (16pp.) Many b/w ills. from works of the Lindsay family. Fine.    #174924                     $30

140         HOUSTON, James. ONE. Yoga moves. Crows Nest. Jamie Durie Publishing. 2005. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 158pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Photographer James Houston takes yoga imagery away from the traditional, & captures the yoga body in a series of striking graphic photographs that have been influenced by his background as a sculptor.   #174216            $30

141         HUMPHRIES, Barry. TREASURY OF AUSTRALIAN KITSCH.  Melb. Macmillan Company of Aust. 1980. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 96pp. (sl foxing) to some pages & dustjacket. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Barry Humphries, an acclaimed connoisseur and unflagging lover of ethnic and Antipodean Art, here presents a selection of such art.   #171932                $38

142         IOANNOU, Noris. CERAMICS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 1836-1986. From Folk to Studio Portrait. Adel. Wakefield Press. 1986. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 386pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Dj sl.torn else a Very good copy. 1st ed. A richly-illustrated history of ceramic art in South Australia.   #172703             $55

143         ISAACS, Jennifer. AUSTRALIA'S LIVING HERITAGE. Arts of the Dreaming. Syd. New Holland Publishers. 2002. (rep) 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 272pp. Sun fading to spine & top edges. Corners slightly bent. col & b/w ills. Good copy. The classic book that first brought together the different facets of Aboriginal art, from painting, sculpture, ceremony and dance, to the making of body ornament, carved utensils and spun articles.   #172318          $33

144         (JACK, Kenneth.) KENNETH JACK. [By] Lou Klepac. Syd. Bay Books. 1988? Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 164pp. 93 Col.plates & 24 monochrome figures. Sl. foxing else Fine. 1st ed. This copy signed by Kenneth Jack and with an inserted Greyhorn Galleries exhibition catalogue in which is inserted an 8-line handwritten note by Kenneth Jack.   #176819           $75

145         JOHNSON, Heather. ROY DE MAISTRE. The English Years 1930 - 1968. Roseville East. Craftsman House. 1995. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 264pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Roy De Maistre left for England in 1930 after his modernist style was failing to make an impression in Sydney. He became part of many London art circles, & friends with Francis Bacon & Patrick White.   #178701                   $175

146         JOHNSON, Ken. LIFE AND LANDSCAPE. Ken Johnson with Gavin Fry. St. Leonards. Craftsman House. n.d. (2000?) Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 199pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Inscribed by Ken Johnson. Ken Johnson explains through text & art, how the opportunity to travel & experience the natural world has nourished & inspired his artistic drive in his landscape paintings.   #179452     $85

147         JOHNSON, Lyn. JOHN FORD PATERSON: A FAMILY TRADITION. McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park. Langwarrin. McClelland Gallery. 2010. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 52pp. One page loose. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by Wendy P. John Ford Paterson was born in Scotland in 1851, where he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy. Migrating to Melbourne in 1872, his landscape art was mostly rejected for its sentimental content.   #180979                  $60

148         JOHNSON, Vivien. DREAMINGS OF THE DESERT. Aboriginal dot paintings of the Western Desert. Adelaide. Art Gallery of SA. 1996. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 140pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. The Aboriginal dot painting movement began in 1971 at Papunya in Central Australia, & galleries were slow to appreciate fully the tremendous importance of this art. Published as part of an exhibition.   #180636                  $55

149         JOHNSON, Vivien. ONCE UPON A TIME IN PAPUNYA.  Syd. University of NSW Press Ltd. 2010. Col.Ill.wrapps. 343pp. (some foxing) to top & foredge & ffe. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Part art history, part detective story, Vivien Johnson recounts the story of 1,000 small, painted panels created in a remote Aboriginal settlement, that sold for astronomical prices in the 1990s.   #180275        $30

150         JOHNSON, Vivien. (Ed). PAPUNYA PAINTING. Out of the desert. Canberra. National Museum of Aust. 2007. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 146pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The National Museum of Australia holds a unique collection of Papunya Tula desert art that has been collected since the early 1970s. First exhibited in 2007, most had never been seen before.   #176887               $45

151         JONES, Philip. ART & LIFE. The memoir of a man bearing witness to the remarkable world of Heide. Crows Nest. Allen & Unwin. 2004. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 312pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. For Philip Jones & his long term partner Barrie Reid, Heide was home for 25 years in post-war Melbourne. In the bohemian atmosphere of John & Sunday Reed's art colony, artists thrived & experimented.   #178061               $30

152         JORDAN, Caroline. PICTURESQUE PURSUITS. Colonial Women Artists & the Amateur Tradition. Carlton. Melbourne Uni Press. 2005. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 224pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Explores the breadth & diversity of amateur women artists such as Mary Morton Allport, Annabella Boswell, & Georgina McCrae, who worked in sketchbooks with pencil & watercolour.   #177260                    $35

153         THE KANGAROO IN THE DECORATIVE ARTS.  Melb. National Gallery of Victoria. 1980. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 36pp. Many b/w ills. Very good copy.    #178436               $25

154         KENT, Rachel. (Ed). YINKA SHONIBARE MBE.  Munich. Prestel. 2008. Folio. Col.ill.bds. Qtr.cloth. Slight marks to cloth. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the MCA, British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare explores his cultural identity through the use of coloured Dutch wax fabric, with vibrant & dynamic results.   #174226          $65

155         KERR, Joan & FALKUS, Hugh. FROM SYDNEY COVE TO DUNTROON. A family album of early life in Australia. Melb. Hutchinson/Gollancz. 1982. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 128pp. Many Col.& b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. The sketches of Sophia Palmer Campbell & Marianne Collinson Campbell, a valuable historical record of 19th Century Australian life.   #180984           $28

156         (KINGSTON, Peter.) HARBOURLIGHTS: THE ART & TIMES OF PETER KINGSTON. By Gavin Wilson. Syd. Craftsman House. 2004. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 183pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. Inscribed by Peter Kingston and with a drawing of the Opera House, partly showing the Harbour Bridge and also a yacht  on the harbour. Traces the life & career of one of Australia's most intriguing artists. Loosely inserted is a painting, acrylic? on paper of a young man reading a book. 24x27cm. Initialled PK and signed "Peter Kingston '08" on the verso.                         #176821        $335

157         KINSMAN, Jane. THE ART OF COLLABORATION. The Big Americans. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2002. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 153pp. Wrapps covered in plastic. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Published to coincide with an exhibition that highlighted the colaborative connections between many of the big names in the American Pop Art movement such as Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Stella & more.   #174938           $35

158         KINSMAN, Jane. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. Paris & The Moulin Rouge. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2012. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 288pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in the colourful & theatrical night life of Paris in the late 19th century, & created an enticing collection of images of a golden age in Parisian night life.   #180283       $40

159         KLEPAC, Lou. RUSSELL DRYSDALE.  Syd. Murdoch Books. 1996. (Revised ed.) Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 383pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Born in Bognor Regis in Sussex in 1912, Russell Drysdale settled in Melbourne in 1923 & worked as a jackaroo before a chance encounter with artist Daryl Lindsay awoke in him the desire to be an artist.   #179064                 $90

160         KLEPAC, Lou. (Ed.) CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN DRAWING. 1978 Perth Survey of Drawing. Perth. W.A.A.G. 1978. Oblong 4to. wrapps. 128pp. Profusely illustrated in col & b/w. Very Good copy of the hardcover 1st ed. Signed by Lou Klepac.   #173072               $27

161         (KLIPPEL, Robert.) ROBERT KLIPPEL. By James Gleeson.  Syd. Bay Books. 1983. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 491pp. Profusely illustrated with col. & b/w plates. Sl.foxing to foredge, & crease to front of dustjacket else a Very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. The definitive work on the abstract sculpture of Klippel.   #172993                     $295

162         (KLIPPEL, Robert.) ROBERT KLIPPEL. By Deborah Edwards. With photographs by Jenni Carter. Syd. AGNSW. 2002. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 267pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Enclosed is a CD-ROM which contains a Catalogue Raisoone of Klippel's sculptural work. Fine. 1st ed. Scarce.    #176892       $95

163         (KLIPPEL, Robert.) ROBERT KLIPPEL. By James Gleeson.  Syd. Bay Books. 1983. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 491pp. Profusely illustrated with col. & b/w plates. Sl.foxing to foredge, & crease to front of dustjacket else a Very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. The definitive work on the abstract sculpture of Klippel.   #176787                     $295

164         (KLIPPEL, Robert.) ROBERT KLIPPEL. By James Gleeson.  Syd. Bay Books. 1983. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 491pp. Profusely illustrated with col. & b/w plates. Sl.foxing to foredge, & crease to front of dustjacket else a Very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. The definitive work on the abstract sculpture of Robert Klippel.   #180166       $295

165         (KNGWARREYE, Emily Kame.) UTOPIA: THE GENIUS OF EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE, Ed. by Margot Neale. Canb. Nat.Mus. of Australia Press. 2008. Folio. Or.ill.wrapps. 271pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed. Very Scarce.    #178321              $330

166         (KNGWARREYE, Emily Kame.) UTOPIA: THE GENIUS OF EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE, Ed. by Margot Neale. Canb. Nat.Mus. of Australia Press. 2008. Folio. Or.ill.wrapps. 271pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed. Very Scarce.    #180167              $195

167         KOLENBERG, Hendrik. LLOYD REES IN EUROPE. Selected Drawings from his Sketchbooks in the Gallery's Collection. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2002. Oblong 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Lloyd Rees first travelled to Europe in the 1920s to meet up with his fiancee, Daphne Mayo. He returned again in 1953, 1959, 1966, & 1973, keeping sketchbooks of his visits to France & Italy.   #178703         $95

168         KOLENBERG, Hendrik. LLOYD REES - ETCHINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS. A Catalogue Raisonne. With an Introduction by Lou Klepac. Syd. The Beagle Press. 1986. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 112pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. Dj with slight tears to top of spine & small water mark to top of spine. Col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Lloyd Rees produced a series of lithographs & etchings over the last ten years of his life. A period of intense activity that saw him reflect on his passion for Europe, Sydney Harbour, & Tasmania.   #179453                   $80

169         KOLENBERG, Hendrik. & RYAN, Anne. SALVATORE ZOFREA. Appassionata woodcuts. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2000. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Salvatore Zofrea arrived in Australia at the age of nine, & made his first prints in 1970 at the Willoughby Arts Centre. His patiently carved woodblock prints portray a rich aesthetic & narrative.   #176894        $40

170         LANE, Carly. & CUBILLO, Franchesca. (Ed). unDisclosed. 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2012. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 160pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Undisclosed is a Triennial contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art exhibition held at the National Gallery in Canberra, & tours through Queensland, South Australia, & NSW.   #179174                    $27

171         LANE, Terence. AUSTRALIAN IMPRESSIONISM.  Melb. NGV. 2007. Folio. Or.col.ill.wrapps. 352pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. A study of the Australian manifestation of the International Impressionism movement, the three principal artists being Tom Roberts, Charles Conder and Arthur Streeton. The book focuses on the first 14 years of the movement, 1883 to 1897.   #180168                $250

172         LAWSON, Elizabeth. THE NATURAL ART OF LOUISA ATKINSON.  Syd. State Library of NSW. 1995. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 143pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Louisa Atkinson was born in NSW, and like most educated young colonial ladies she was taught to paint, sketch, play, sing, & embroider. Louisa's art was unusual in its diversity of flora & fauna.   #174229        $38

173         LEHMANN, Geoffrey. AUSTRALIAN PRIMITIVE PAINTERS.  St. Lucia. University of Qld Press. 1977. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 99pp. Sl.foxing to first few pages. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Good copy. A look at five of Australia's primitive painters. Irvine Homer, Charles Callins, James Fardoulys, Sam Byrne, & Henri Bastin all lack formal training & began painting later in life.   #176138                     $36

174         LEJWA, Madeline Charlette. JEAN ARP. Sculpture, reliefs, works on paper. An exhibition organised by Madeleine Chalette Lejwa 1977-1978. Melb. Gardner Printing. 1977. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 76pp. (a little foxing) col & b/w ills. Very good copy. An exhibition catalogue of sculpture, reliefs and works on paper by the German-French artist, Jean Arp that was displayed in the Australian Galleries in 1977 as organised by Madeleine Lejwa.   #172711               $27

175         LINDSAY, Lionel. COMEDY OF LIFE. An Autobiography. Syd. A & R. 1967. Or.cl. Dustjacket. (price-clipped; edges rubbed) 272pp. b/w plates. Very Good copy. 1st ed. This book contains a foreword by his son, Peter Lindsay, and is illustrated with drawings and photographs by the author.   #180992                    $38

176         LINDSAY, Lionel. CONRAD MARTENS. The man and his art. Syd. Angus & Robertson Ltd. 1920. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 154pp. Some foxing to end papers & sl.foxing to some pages. Dustjacket torn at corners. Boards slightly bowed. Col tipped in plates & b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. Lionel Lindsay's essay on Conrad Martens after examining the artists letters & diaries to get an insight into his art. A Pilgrim Father of art in the Antipodes, & a cornerstone of landscape painting.   #176140           $80

177         LINDSAY, Norman. ETCHINGS.  Syd. A & R. 1982. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket (spine sl.faded) unpag. 100 monochrome plates illustrating the best of Lindsay's etchings. Sl. foxing, mostly to page edges, else Fine. 1st ed. thus. Originally published as "Favourite Etchings".   #180292                   $60

178         LINDSAY, Norman. PEN DRAWINGS.  Syd. Ure Smith. 1974. (rep) Or.bds. Dustjacket. unpag. 56 b/w plates. of Norman Lindsay pen drawings.Spine of dj sl.faded else a very good copy. First published in 1931.   #170715                 $28

179         LINDSAY, Norman. PEN DRAWINGS.  Syd. Ure Smith. 1974. (rep) Or.bds. Dustjacket. unpag. 56 b/w plates. of Norman Lindsay pen drawings.Spine of dj sl.faded else a very good copy. First published in 1931.   #180293                 $28

180         LINDSAY, Norman. WAR CARTOONS, 1914-1918. Edited & with Comments by Peter Fullerton. Melb. University Press. 1983. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 251pp. Profusely illustrated. Very good copy. 1st ed. Lindsay was resident cartoonist on The Bulletin during the Great War and his output included over 150 full-page cartoons which appeared on the journal's title page as well as much else.   #177952         $135

181         LINDSAY, Norman. WATERCOLOURS. Fifteen reproductions in colour from original watercolours with an appreciation of the medium by Norman Lindsay and a survey of the artist's life & work by Geoffrey Blunden. Syd. Ure Smith. 1973. (rep.) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 64pp. 15 col.plates. Fine. Originally published as the Norman Lindsay Watercolour Book in a larger format in 1939.    #171170                  $35

182         LINDSAY, Norman. WATERCOLOURS.  Syd. 1973. (rep.) Dustjacket. 64pp. 15 col. plates. Fine. Originally published as the Norman Lindsay Watercolour Book in a larger format in 1939.    #180294             $30

183         LINDSAY, Sir Lionel. SIR LIONEL LINDSAY. ETCHINGS AND DRYPOINTS.  Syd. 1949. 8vo. Or.bds. 48pp. 32 b/w plates. Boards sl.rubbed else a Very good copy. 1st ed. Ure Smith Miniature Series No.2.   #179908                     $33

184         LIU YANG. FANTASTIC MOUNTAINS. Chinese Landscape Painting from the Shanghai Museum. Syd. AGNSW. 2004. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 224pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed. 1st ed. The catalogue of an exhibition.   #171954        $90

185         LIU YANG & CAPON, Edmund. MASKS OF MYSTERY. Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Sanxingoui. Exhibition Catalogue. Syd. AGNSW. 2000. Folio. Or.Col.Ill.wrapps. 110pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. 1st ed.    #171955                $40

186         LLOYD, Bernard. THE WATER GETTERS. How Hobart quenched its thirst. Goodwood. Hobart Warter. 2008. Oblong 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 117pp. col & b/w ills. Some wear to dustjacket at top edges. Very good copy. 1st ed. The Water Getters tells how a settlement was chosen for its proximity to water, how its people searched for new sources, and how they expanded their reach to distant regions in order to water a city.   #171956        $45

187         MACDONALD, Patricia Tryon. (Ed). EXILES AND EMIGRANTS. Epic journeys to Australia in the Victorian era. Melb. National Gallery of Victoria. 2005. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. A pictorial examination of the some fifteen million people that left Britain during the rather prosperous reign of Queen Victoria, with one hundred million emigrating to Australia, as captured in art.   #174237            $30

188         MACINTYRE, Stuart. THE REDS. The Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality. St. Leonards. Allen & Unwin. 1998. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 482pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1920, 26 people met in a dingy hall in Sydney to create a new political party. They expected the overthrow of capitalism & the emanicpation of humanity. By 1939, the Communist Party was suppressed.   #179565              $35

189         MACLEAN, Jamie. & HOBART, Timothy. (Ed). EROS & PSYCHE.  Woollahra. DC-Art. 1988. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 95pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. An exhibition catalogue of erotic art from Europe. Beginning with French erotic art from the 18th century through to the 1960s & pop art.   #174238         $28

190         MAGLIOZZI, R. HE, J. & WARREN, K. (Ed). TIM BURTON - THE EXHIBITION. Melbourne Winter Masterpieces. Melb. Aust Centre for Moving Image. 2010. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 71pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Published to accompany an exhibition of original artwork drawings & design by American filmaker, Tim Burton. Featuring artwork from The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice & Charlie & the Chocolate Fact.   #180655     $35

191         MAKSIC, Sava, and, MESKIL, Paul. PRIMITIVE ART OF NEW GUINEA. Sepik River Basin. Worcester, Mass. Davis Publications 1973. Oblong 4to. Or.bds. 95pp. Many b/w ills. Publication date blacked out on verso of title else a very good copy. 1st ed.    #173444               $33

192         MALOON, Terence. (Ed). CLASSIC CEZANNE.  Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 1998. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 186pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Published as part of an exhibition held at the AGNSW between November 1998, & February 1999. It featured paintings & sketches from Paul Cezanne's early & late periods on loan from various galleries.   #180656           $27

193         MANION, Margaret M. THE FELTON ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA.  Melb. Macmillan Art Publishing. 2005. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 439pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. The National Gallery of Victoria is home to The Felton Illuminated Manuscripts. A small, but distinguished collection of illuminated manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 15th century.   #178323                $120

194         MARTINI, Karen. WHERE THE HEART IS. Photography by Petrina Tinslay. Camberwell. Lantern. 2006. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 248pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A collection of Karen Martini's inspiring recipes from her hugely popular weekly column in Sunday Life magazine is packed with simple, wonderfully accessible & delicious ideas.   #174949                $30

195         MEREDITH, Louisa Anne. BUSH FRIENDS IN TASMANIA. LAST SERIES. Native Flowers, Fruits and Insects, Drawn from Nature. With Descriptions and Illustrations in Verse. Lond. Macmillan & Co. 1891. Folio. Original cloth with elaborate gilt flower decorations. 83pp. a.e.g. Twelve full page lithographic colour plates. Ten full page b/w plates. Each text page with a decorated border. A very good copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce. Edition of 700 numbered copies signed by Louisa Anne Meredith.   #176791                $895

196         MICHELL, Keith (Illustrator) SHAKESPEARE, William. SONNETS. A Selection. Illustrated by Keith Michell. Foreword by Sir Robert Helpmann. Melb. Lansdowne Editions. 1979. Folio. Full leather with gilt design on front board. 47pp. 12 full-page colour lithographs and other illustrations. Head and tail of spine sl.rubbed else a Fine copy. 1st ed. thus. Scarce. Edition of 500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator.   #180901             $225

197         MILLAR, Michele. (Ed). THE UNDISCOVERED PRO HART.  Melb. Blue Bush Press Pty Ltd. 1992. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 80pp. (sl foxing) Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Kevin Charles Hart is considered the father of the Australian Outback painting. Growing up on a sheepfarm in NSW, he was nicknamed 'Professor' for his inventions, & became Pro Hart the painter.   #181002             $40

198         MINOGUE, Kylie. KYLIE.  Syd. Pan Macmillan. 1999. (rep) Folio. Col.ill.bds in slipcase. Profusely illustrated in colour. Slipcase sl. rubbed else Fine copy. A collection of photography, sketches and paintings, with contributions from musicians such as Nick Cave and Bono.   #172724                     $60

199         MONTY, Rowena. A HISTORY OF THE KU-RING-GAI ART SOCIETY. 1965 - 2015. Willoughby. Phillip Mathews. 2015. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 156pp. presentation sticker on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. For more than 50 years, the Ku-ring-gai Art Society has contributed to the cultural needs of the region, with countless exhibitions, lessons & art prizes to encourage local talent.   #178455              $35

200         MORRELL, Timothy. COLONIAL TO CONTEMPORARY. Queensland College of Art 125 Years. Bris. Griffith Artworks. 2006. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 126pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Begun as a School of Arts in Queen Street, Brisbane in 1849, it taught drawing informally, & in 1879 a formal curriculum was established. Notable alumni include, Davida Allen, Tracey Moffatt, Ben Frost   #179185                  $30

201         MORRISON, Sally. AFTER FIRE. A BIOGRAPHY OF CLIFTON PUGH.  Melb. Hardie Grant Books. 2009. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 592pp. Col.plates & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Brings to life the art of Clifton Pugh, once one of Australia's most prominent and controversial painters.   #171509                    $60

202         MORROW, Christine. (Ed). I WALK THE LINE. New Australian Drawing. Syd. Museum of Contemporary Art. 2009. Spiral bound 4to. Or.bds. 85pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Published to reflect the resurgence of drawing as an artform by Australian Artists, it features works by contemporary artists who have embraced Paul Klee's assertion that drawing is its own art form.   #174956               $40

203         MORTON, S. MARTIN, M. MAHOOD, K. CARTY, J. (Ed). DESERT LAKE. Art, science and stories from Paruku. Collingwood. CSIRO Publishing. 2013. 8vo. Col.ill.bds. 294pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Combining artistic, scientific & Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory, & Aboriginals call Walmajarri Land.   #174582           $55

204         MacAULAY, Desmond. & Bettina. SINGING IN THE HEART. Music and the Art of Rupert Bunny. Rockhampton. Rockhampton Art Galler 2007. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 118pp. Some rubbing to edges. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Rockhampton Art Gallery presented a collection of works by Australian painter, Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny, & some of the art that inspired his work. He was ritically acclaimed in Paris in 1890.   #180306            $45

205         McCAUGHEY, Patrick. (Ed). BERT & NED. The correspondence of Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan. Carlton. The Megunyah Press. 2006. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 257pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Albert Tucker & Sidney Nolan were friends & rivals but never antagonists for the whole of their working lives as artists. Together they struggled to establish modern art in Australia in the 1940s.   #177284                   $30

206         McCAUGHEY, Patrick. FRED WILLIAMS 1927-1982.  Syd. Murdoch Books. 1996. (revised ed.) Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 374pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Fred Williams is one of Australia's greatest landscape artist. Leaving school at 14, he was apprenticed to a Melbourne firm of shopfitters, studying art part time, then studied art in London until 1956   #179928          $85

207         McCORMICK, Tim. FIRST VIEWS OF AUSTRALIA 1788-1825. A History of Early Sydney. Syd. 1987 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 340pp. Many col & b/w plates. Some foxing spots on top edge else a very good copy. 1st ed. Restricted edition of 2000 copies. An important volume which brings together all the known topographic views of Sydney & Parramatta made between the beginnings of settlement and the end of the Governorship of Lachlan Macquarie.   #178325                  $225

208         McCULLOCH, Alan. & Susan. (Ed). THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AUSTRALIAN ART. Revised and updated. St. Leonards. Allen & Unwin. 1994. 3rd ed. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 879pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Bound-in marker ribbon. Very good copy. Widely referred to as the 'Bible' of Australian art, it is a major reference work on Australian art from 1770 to 1994. With biographical infomation on over 3000 Australian artists of many mediums.   #176564               $65

209         McCULLOCH, Susan. CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL ART. A guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture. Revised edition. Crows Nest. Allen & Unwin. 2001. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 247pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. New forms of traditionally based Aboriginal art have become Australia's most dynamic visual art, & are now much loved & appreciated worldwide. Susan McCulloch explores the regional differences in art.   #177739                   $45

210         McDONALD, Anne. DOUGLAS ANNAND. The art of life. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2001. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Light fading to spine & top edge. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Australian graphic designer & artist, Douglas Shenton Annand, went freelance as a designer in 1931. Best known for his opening poster of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932. A retrospective exhibition.   #179188                    $35

211         McDONALD, Ewen. SITE.  Syd. Museum of Contemporary Art. 2012. Small 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 228pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Published to celebrate the opening of the refurbished & expanded Museum of Contemporary Art in The Rocks in 2012, it looks at the history of the site from ancient times through to white settlement.   #176912       $36

212         McFARLANE, Dr. Jenny. (Ed). COLD BLOODED. Ex De Medici. Canberra. Drill Hall Gallery, ANU. 2013. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 93pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. eX de Medici was born in 1959 in the Riverina district of NSW, & her art incorporates performance, installation art, tattooing, photography, painting, & drawing. She is also a practicing tattooist.   #181011           $55

213         McGRATH, Raymond & FROST, A.C. GLASS IN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATION. With a section on the nature and properties of glass. Lond. Architectural Press. 1937. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. (sl. marked and worn on corners) 664pp. Profusely illustrated with many b/w plates & ills. Inscription on ffe. A little foxing else Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Written by the Australian artist and architect in collaboration with his brother-in-law, this monumental volume remains the standard work on the subject.   #180310                 $125

214         McGRATH, Sandra. BRETT WHITELEY.  Syd. Bay Books. 1979. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 232pp. (sl foxing) Name on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A monograph on the work of the Australian avant-garde artist Brett Whiteley (1939-1992), published before his death. The text is written by an associate of the artist's family with diary excerpts.   #172739            $55

215         McGRATH, Sandra. BRETT WHITELEY.  Pymble. Bay Books. 1992. (3rd ed) Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 232pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Sandra McGrath was a close friend of the Whiteley family since 1965. Her survey of Whiteley's artistic output is quite comprehensive, from his early oils, to his sculpture, ceramics & large landscapes.   #176913                $45

216         McGRATH, Sandra. BRETT WHITELEY.  Syd. Bay Books. 1979. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 232pp. Inscription on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A monograph on the work of the Australian avant-garde artist Brett Whiteley (1939-1992), published before his death. The text is written by an associate of the artist's family with diary excerpts.   #179455            $65

217         McGREGOR, Ken. ROBERT JACKS. PAST UNFOLDED.  Syd. Craftsman House. 2001. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 168pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed.    #172740     $45

218         McMULLIN, Ross. WILL DYSON. Cartoonist, etcher and Australia's finest war artist. Syd. Angus & Robertson Publishers. 1984. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 337pp. Col plates & b/w ills. Good copy. 1st ed. Will Dyson began his cartooning career at The Bulletin before he was 21 years of age, & in 1910 he married Ruby Lindsay & moved to London, eventually becoming an Australian official war artist in 1915.   #178087     $40

219         NEALE, Margo. YIRIBANA. An introduction to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection. The Art Gallery of New South Wales. Forward by Edmund Capon. Syd. AGNSW. n.d. Col.Ill.wrapps. 143pp. Name on ffe. Parts of text marked in highlighter pen. Prof.ill. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. Published to coincide with the opening of the gallery of Aboriginal Art in the Art Gallery of NSW, it examines the art in the collection with text by Margo Neale, a descendant from the Mirning group.   #172744                $35

220         NEWTON, Gael. SHADES OF LIGHT. Photography & Australia, 1839-1988. Canb. Aust.National Gallery. 1988. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 218pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Very good copy. 1st softcover ed. Traces the history of photography as an art in Australia from 1839 onward.    #178463              $45

221         NICHOLLS, Christine. YILPINJI. Love Art & Ceremony. Fishermens Bend. Craftsman House. 2006. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 87pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. A collection of beautiful prints by Aboriginal artists that explores the visual tradition of Yilpinji, the ceremonies of the Warlpiri & Kukatja people of the Central & Western Deserts region.   #177290                     $28

222         NOLAN. Exhibition Catalogue. Woollahra. Eva Breuer. 2002. Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 48pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. Fine.    #174968                 $30

223         NOLAN, 1917-1992. Exhibition Catalogue. Woollahra. Eva Breuer. 1992. Oblong 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 84pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. Fine.    #174969           $35

224         NOLAN, Sidney & LYNN, Elwyn. SIDNEY NOLAN - AUSTRALIA.  Syd. Bay Books. 1979. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. (sl. rubbed) 226pp. col & b/w ills. 1st ed. Some foxing else Very Good copy. Three exhibition catalogues loosely inserted. Inscribed by Sidney Nolan on title page, dated 1st November, 1983.   #176822     $250

225         NORRIS, Cheryl. "IN MY DAY". A history of general nurse training at the Royal Hobart Hospital 1803-1993. Hobart. University of Tasmania. 2011. Col.Ill.wrapps. 302pp. col & b/w ills. Slight creasing to wrapps at corners. Very good copy. 1st ed. Or.cl. Inscribed by the author. A collection of personal accounts of how nursing students of different eras cared for their patients and themselves in the context of their times. An historic snapshot of the lives of nurses in Hobart.   #171661                  $33

226         NORST, Marlene J. FERDINAND BAUER. The Australian Natural History Drawings. Melb. Lothian. 1989. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 120pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed.    #178089               $30

227         NORTON, Leonie. WOMEN OF FLOWERS. Botanical art in Australia. From the 1830s to the 1960s. Canberra. National Library of Aust. 2009. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 126pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. The National Library of Australia has a wonderful cache of Australian wildflower art produced by prolific women artists of colonial, & post colonial Australia. A look at their art & lives.   #179933       $30

228         OLSEN, John. THE LAND BEYOND TIME. A Modern Exploration of Australia's North-West Frontiers. John Olsen with Mary Durack, Geoffrey Dutton, Vincent Serventy and Alex Bortignon. Sth Melb. Macmillan Company. 1984. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 312pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by John Olsen, Mary Durack & Alex Bortignon. John Olsen's artistic record of his trip into the North-West frontiers of Australia. He visited many remote Aboriginal communities, & kept a visual diary during his travels.   #179456                 $125

229         OLSEN, John. MY COMPLETE GRAPHICS, 1957-1979. Introduction by Lou KLepac. Melb. Gryphon Books. 1980. 4to. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 248pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed & numbered by the artist. One of 1000 copies signed and numbered by Olsen in 1980.   #179457        $650

230         OLSEN, John. A SURVEY EXHIBITION.  Savill Galleries. 21 March - 28 April 1999. Melb. Savill Galleries. 1999. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 16pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. A Survey Exhibition of some of John Olsen's recent landscapes of the Kimberley, together with some of his Lake Eyre paintings, & some of his lilly pad & frog series of caligraphy like paintings.   #178835            $25

231         OLSEN, John. TEEMING WITH LIFE. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics 1957 - 2005. By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen & Jeffrey Makin. Sth Yarra. Macmillan Publishers. 2005. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 264pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A collection of John Olsen's complete graphic work from 1957 to 2005, including his wonderful frog series.   #179458               $175

232         OLSEN, John. & HARRIS, Andy. CULINARIA. The Cuisine of the Sun. Woollahra. Tim Olsen Gallery. 2010. Col.Ill.wrapps. 46pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. A young John Olsen was travelling by Lambretta from Paris to Barcelona when he stopped in a market & discovered food he had never seen before. Here he combines recipes & the paintings they inspired.   #180671                $22

233         (OLSEN, John) TEEMING WITH LIFE. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics 1957 - 2005. By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen & Jeffrey Makin. Sth. Yarra. Macmillan Publishers. 2005. Folio. Or.dec.cl. In the slip-case. 264pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Limited edition version.l With signed & numbered etching by the artist bound into book. John Olsen has described his art as 'taking the line for a holiday'. A complete survey of all his graphic art from 1957, when he first went to England, to his more recent works in 2005.   #179794             $850

234         (OLSEN, John.) JOHN OLSEN. By Deborah Hart. Syd. Craftsman House. 1991. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 112pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. A major work on Olsen's life and art.   #174858         $85

235         (OLSEN, John.) JOHN OLSEN. Savill Galleries. Exhibition dates: 2 to 26 June 1999. Paddington. Savill Galleries. 1999. 4to. Fold-out card in three panels. Colour ills. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. A catalogue of nine landscapes by one of Australia's favourite artists & characters, John Olsen. He has won many awards for his art, & an OBE for his services to the arts.   #178836                $22

236         (OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul.) THE FAIRY WORLD OF IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE. By Marcie Muir and Robert Holden. Syd. Craftsman's Press. 1985. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 171pp. Numerous Col.& b/w plates. Fine. 1st trade ed. The life & work of one of the most beloved of Australian authors.   #171510                    $80

237         PARKER, Adrian. IMAGES IN OCHRE. The Art and Craft of the Kunwinjku. Adel. JB Publishing. 2004. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Profusely ill. in col. Fine. A collection of paintings and didgeridoos, carefully selected to display the distinct style of contemporary Kunwinjku artists.   #179937              $24

238         PEARCE, Barry. MARGARET OLLEY, 1923-2001. Foreword by Edmund Capon. Roseville. The Beagle Press. 2012. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 264pp. Name on half title page. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Margaret Olley was an icon familiar to most Australians. She focused mostly on still life and interiors. Inspired by Vermeer, Chardin, Bonnard, Vuillard and Morandi, she drenched the canvas with colour   #172627         $85

239         PEARCE, Barry. MASTER OF STILLNESS. Jeffrey Smart Paintings 1940-2011. Kent Town. Wakefield Press. 2012. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 137pp. Name on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. This book on the work of Jeffrey Smart is the first since his virtual retirement from painting in 2011. It illuminates the vision of the most celebrated of Australian expatriate artists.   #172751                     $48

240         PECK, Marilyn. THE WASTE LAND SUITE.  Melb. Macmillan. 2004. Oblong 4to. Or.blind-stamped cloth. Dustjacket. 112pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed. Inscribed by Marilyn Peck. Artwork inspired by and an imaginative commentary on T.S.Eliot's "The Waste Land".   #177176                     $75

241         PERCEVAL, John. JOHN PERCEVAL. By Margaret Plant. General Editor John Henshaw. Melb. Lansdowne. 1971. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 112pp. (a little foxing to top edge) Dustjacket covered in removeable plastic. col.& b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. John Perceval was a member of the Angry Penguins, who redefined Australian art in the 1940s. He befriended Arthur Boyd when he enlisted in the army in 1941, & married Boyd's sister after the war.   #178471             $45

242         PERKINS, Hetti. & JONES, Jonathan. (Ed). HALF LIGHT PORTRAITS FROM BLACK AUSTRALIA.  Syd. AGNSW. 2008. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 140pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Half Light is a photographic expression of contemporary Indigenous life in Australa. Fifteen contemporary Indigenous photographers have captured ordinary & historical moments in Aboriginal lives.   #179201           $45

243         PERKINS, Hetti. & FINK, Hannah. (Ed). PAPUNYA TULA. Genesis and Genius. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2000. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 319pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Papunya Tula artist cooperative was formed in 1972 that is owned & operated by the Aboriginal people of the Western Desert of Australia. The Art Gallery of NSW presented a retrospective of their art.   #179592        $100

244         PORTER, Gaby. WOMBARRA. Sculpture garden. Wombarra. Black Duck Press. 2011. Col.ill.bds. 102pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. A look at Gaby Porter's sculpture garden at Wombarra in NSW. After studying art at East Sydney Technical College in 1970, she created work in the inner city, before moving to Wombarra in 1988.   #176923           $40

245         PRATHER, Marla. & STUCKEY, Charles F. (Ed). GAUGUIN. A retrospective. Syd. Bay Books. 1987. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 387pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Paul Gauguin is one of the best known & most popular of the Post-Impressionist painters. From his mysterious symbolist works painted in Brittany, to his vibrant Tahitian works of sun drenched hues.   #176168     $75

246         (PRESTON, Margaret.) MARGARET PRESTON. By Deborah Edwards & Rose Peel, with Denise Mimmocchi. Syd. AGNSW. 2005. 4to. Or.col.ill.wrapps. 300pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. 1st ed. Includes CD-Rom catalogue raisonne of paintings, monotypes & ceramics in rear pocket. A detailed exhibition catalogue looking at the life & work of Australia's most innovative early modernist.   #173097        $125

247         PROCTOR, Gray. LAND AND BODY. Warburton Collection China Tour. Alice Springs. Warburton Arts. 2013. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Name on ffe else a very good copy. 1st ed. Text in English & Mandarin. The Warburton Arts Project is the largest collection of Aboriginal art owned & housed by Aboriginal people in Australia in the Warburton Ranges. In 2013 a selection of works went on tour in China.   #179207                   $55

248         PRUNSTER, Ursula (Curator) BELLE-ILE. Monet, Russell & Matisse in Brittany. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2001. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 132pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1886 a young Sydney born art student, John Peter Russell, chanced upon the renowned Impressionist, Claude Monet, painting on a windswept cliff of Brittany. Thus begun a long artistic friendship.   #176172     $35

249         (PUGH, Clifton.) PATTERNS OF A LIFETIME. A Biography by Traudi Allen. Melb. Nelson. 1981. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 221pp. Spine slightly faded.Col.& b/w plates. Very Good copy. 1st ed. Maisie Drysdale's copy, signed on ffe. A frank biography of the Australian artist.   #172757                     $30

250         QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY. THE TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS.  South Bris. Qld Art Gallery. 2011. Col.Ill.wrapps. 319pp. Prof.ill. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. The Torres Strait Islands showcases the outstanding collections and performance programs of the major arts organisations located at South Bank, Brisbane. Featuring cultural objects and contemporary art   #172758           $55

251         RADFORD, Ron. (Ed). TOM ROBERTS.  Adelaide. Art Gallery of SA. 1997. 4to. Col.ill.bds. 224pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Thomas William Roberts was an British born Australian artist who was a key member of the Heidelberg School, & part of the Australian Impressionist movement. He did much to promote en plein air painting   #178101             $30

252         REES, Lloyd. AN ARTIST REMEMBERS. Lloyd Rees with Renee Free. Seaforth. Craftsman House. 1987. 4to. Or.cl. In the slip case. 160pp. Cloth sl.faded at spine with some marks. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the artist. Lloyd Rees in conversation with Renee Free discusses the inspiration & stories behind some of his most well known art. An insight into the creative life of one of Australia's greatest artists.   #179461                  $125

253         REES, Lloyd. LLOYD REES DRAWINGS. Edited with an Introduction by Lou Klepac. Syd. Artarmon Galleries. 1978. Oblong Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 128pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the artist the year of publication. Peter Lindsay's copy with his bookplate by Lionel Lindsay. A selection of drawings by Australian landscape painter, Lloyd Rees. After training as an artist in Brisbane, he became a commercial artist in 1917. These are sketches & drawings from his travels.   #178711                     $195

254         REES, Lloyd. LLOYD REES ETCHINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS. A Catalogue Raisonn‚. By Hendrik Kolenberg. With an introduction by Lou Klepac. Syd. Beagle Press. 1986. 4to. Full calf. 112pp. Numerous col. & b/w. ills. Fine in the slip-case. 1st ed. Special collectors' edition of 100 copies numbered & signed by the artist and containing an original signed lithograph by Lloyd Rees. Scarce.   #179796                    $900

255         REID, Barrett. & UNDERHILL, Nancy. (Ed). LETTERS OF JOHN REED. Defining Australian cultural life 1920 - 1981. Ringwood. Viking. 2001. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 944pp. Dustjacket wrapped in plastic. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Writter and innovator John Reed played a defining role in Australian cultural life for over 40 years. Together with his wife Sunday, John Reed fostered an arts community at Heide in the 1940s.   #171990                    $45

256         RICKETTS, William. & text by STREHLOW, T. G. H. ALL LIFE IS ONE... A Selection of Works by William Ricketts. Melb. Forests Commision Victoria. 1982. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 63pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. Some creasing to front cover & light scuffing to corners. col ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Australian potter & sculptor William Ricketts, settled permanently in the Dandenongs in 1934. He embraced Aboriginal spirituality, & created carved works in stone & wood in the mountain woodlands.   #179463                $0

257         ROE, Jae-Ryung. CONTEMPORARY KOREAN ART.  St. Leonards. Craftsman House. 2001. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 120pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Korean visual art has often been overshadowed on the international art market by Japan & China. Since the mid 1980s, Korean art has emerged as young artists combine traditional forms with the new.   #177773                    $50

258         THE ROSE CROSSING: CONTEMPORARY ART IN AUSTRALIA.  Syd. Sherman Galleries. 1999. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 80pp. Many Col.ills. Fine. 1st ed. Exhibition catalogue.   #179955                    $18

259         ROSS, John O. C. WILLIAM STEWART. Sealing Captain, Trader and Speculator. Roebuck Society Publication No. 37. Canberra. Roebuck Book. 1987. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 220pp. b/w ills & maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. William Stewart was a Scottish sealer & whaler, who served in the royal Navy in 1793. Arriving in Port Jackson in 1801, he set up a sealing business, & settled on Stewart Island in New Zealand in 1826.   #179600             $30

260         ROSS, John O. C. WILLIAM STEWART. Sealing captain, trader and speculator. Roebuck Society Publication No. 37. Canberra. Roebuck Book. 1987. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 220pp. b/w ills & maps. Very good copy. 1st ed. William Stewart was a master mariner & sealer trading out of Port Jackson in 1809. Whilst sailing from Port Jackson to England, he discovered an island, that was named Stewart Island after him.   #181027             $33

261         ROSS, Peter. LET'S FACE IT. The history of the Archibald Prize. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2001. (rep) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 155pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. Jules Francois Archibald was the founding editor of the Bulletin, until its political conservatism forced him to start the Lone Hand. In 1921 he put up 400 pounds as a prize for a portrait competition.   #174278                 $40

262         (ROWAN, Ellis.) FLOWER PAINTINGS OF ELLIS ROWAN. From the Collection of the National Library of Australia. With an Introduction by Margaret Hazzard. And Notes on the Flowers by Helen Hewson. Canb. National Library. 1982. Large Folio. Or.cl. x,20pp. text + 20 Col.plates. Fine in the slip-case. 1st ed. Scarce. A collection of the works of Australia's most prolific flower painter.   #181028                 $145

263         ROYAL ART SOCIETY. AUSTRALIAN ART ILLUSTRATED 1947.  Syd. 1947. 4to. wrapps. 72pp. Slight chipping to edges of wrapps. 9 col. & 56 monochrome plates. Nice copy. One of 1600 copies. Very good copy. A selection of works by artists who were members of the Royal Art Scoiety in 1947. With an essay by Sydney Long on 'The Art of Etching'.   #178484                  $30

264         ROZEN, Alan. THE ART OF JOHN COBURN.  Syd. Ure Smith. 1979. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 96pp. (sl foxing) Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by John Coburn and the author. John Coburn studied art at East Sydney Technical College in 1947, & finished his training dissatisfied. He began creating set designs & art work for ABC TV in 1956, but returned to teaching art in 1959   #179069                 $125

265         RYAN, Judith. MYTHSCAPES - Aboriginal Art of The Desert. From the National Gallery of Victoria. Melb. National Gallery of Victoria. 1989. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 104pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. A look at the birth of what has become the Aboriginal contemporary art form first discovered in 1971 at Papunya, when Aboriginal artists began transposing mythic designs on to board & canvas.   #174986                   $40

266         SAVILL, Denis. CHARLES BLACKMAN - JOHN OLSEN - ARTHUR BOYD. Savill Galleries. 1 - 22 November 1995. Paddington. Savill Galleries. 1995. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 28pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. Exhibition Catalogue. Savill Galleries present works by Sydney artist, & East Sydney Tech trained Charles Blackman, Melbourne artist trained by his grandfather, Arthur Boyd, & Newcastle artist & Julian Ashton trained Olsen.   #178850               $30

267         SCOTT, John. LANDSCAPES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Photographs by Richard Woldendorp. Claremont. Aeolian Press. 1986. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 56pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. A selection of landscapes of Western Australia by artists such as Fred Williams, John Olsen, Robert Juniper, George Haynes, & James Linton, together with the landscape that inspired the painting.   #180694       $45

268         SCULPTURE BY THE SEA. THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS, 1997-2016.  Syd. Sculpture by the Sea Inc. 2016. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 231pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. A history of the splendid annual Sydney event.    #178106                $55

269         SEASONS. THE BEAUTY OF TRANSIENCE IN JAPANESE ART. Exhibition Catalogue. Syd. AGNSW. 2003. 4to. Or.Col.Ill.wrapps. 48pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. CD in back cover. Fine. 1st ed. Japanese art on screens, ceramics, textiles and lacquerware.   #174609            $40

270         SEEAR, Lynne. DARKNESS & LIGHT. The art of William Robinson. South Brisbane. QLD Art Gallery. 2001. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 159pp. Slight rubbing to wrapps. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Published by the Queensland Art Gallery to coincide with a travelling retrospective exhibition of the paintings of William Robinson. Robinson is best known for his unusual perspectives of rural life.   #173105          $35

271         SERLE, Geoffrey. THE CREATIVE SPIRIT IN AUSTRALIA. A Cultural History. Richmond (VIC). William Heinemann. 1987. (rep) 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 247pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. The Creative Spirit in Australia is a comprehensive & exciting history of the creative arts in Australia. Geoffrey Serle documents the develompent of creativity from 1850 to 1970.   #178853                     $25

272         SMART, Jeffrey. NOT QUITE STRAIGHT. A memoir. North Sydney. Vintage Books. 2008. (rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 468pp. Name on half title page. b/w plates. Very good copy. Born in respectable Adelaide in 1921, Jeffrey Smart made his first Grand Tour of Europe at the age of four. Studying with Fernand Leger his artistic development brought international acclaim and fame.   #173107                $27

273         SMART, Jeffrey. NOT QUITE STRAIGHT. A memoir. Port Melb. William Heinemann. 1996. 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 464pp. Dj sl.faded at spine. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the Jeffrey Smart. Jeffrey Smart survived the Depression, a world war, & more than a quarter of a century of his life in censorious Adelaide to emerge unbowed as one of the great figures of Australian painting.   #176825     $125

274         SMIBERT, Tony. THE ART OF TONY SMIBERT. The St John Ambulance Collection. Davenport. Studio Editions Aust. 2006. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 76pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the artist. Tony Smibert is one of Australia's leading watercolourists. His art is inspired by Japanese minimalism, early 19th century English school painting, & Abstract Expressionism. He is also an aikido master   #178857                     $47

275         SMITH, Bernard (Ed.) DOCUMENTS ON ART AND TASTE IN AUSTRALIA. The Colonial Period 1770-1914. Melb. OUP. 1990. (rep) Col.ill.wrapps. 299pp. Fine. Writings by or about artists working in Australia 1770-1914.   #174991                 $24

276         SMITH, Bernard. AUSTRALIAN PAINTING 1788 - 1960.  Melb. Oxford University Press. 1962. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 357pp. with col & b/w ills. Dustjacket torn & chipped else a Very good copy. 1st ed. A history of Australian painting from its earliest colonial beginnings to its emergence as a distinctive style in the 1880's, to the vivid contemporary work of Nolan, Boyd, Coburn, Tucker, and Olsen.   #170745         $38

277         SMITH, Bernard. MODERNISM'S HISTORY. A study in Twentieht-Century art and ideas. Syd. University of NSW Press Ltd. 1998. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 376pp. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Bernard Smith argues that the history of 20th century art can no longer be seen as a succession of avant-garde movements, but deserves to be called modernism, emerging at the end of the 19th century.   #176940                $32

278         SMITH, Sue. NORTH OF CAPRICORN. THE ART OF RAY CROOKE. With an essay by James Gleeson. Townsville. Perc Tucker Gallery. 1997. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 95pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. An exhibition catalogue of a major exhibition of the art of Ray Crooke. Crooke visited Townsville as a young serviceman during WWII, & struck by the tropical environment, moved there in 1951.   #173870             $40

279         SMITH, Terry. TRANSFORMATIONS IN AUSTRALIAN ART. The nineteenth century - landscape, colony and nation. Volume one. St. Leonards. Craftsman House. 2002. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 130pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. These essays examine the crucial role played by vision in the colonisation of the Australian continent, and in the formation of a national consciousness. A visual culture of careful inclusion developed   #173109         $35

280         SMITH, Terry. TRANSFORMATIONS IN AUSTRALIAN ART. Volume 1. The Nineteenth Century - Landscape, Colony and Nation. Volume 2. The Twentieth Century - Modernism & Aboriginality. 2 vols. St. Leonards. Craftsman House. 2002. Or.bds. Dustjackets. 130,175pp. b/w ills. A Fine set. 1st eds. These essays examine the crucial role played by vision in the colonisation of the Australian continent. and in the formation of a national consciousness. Volume two tackles two of the most difficult themes in Australian art in the twentieth century, Modernism and Aboriginality. The set   #180333     $75

281         SPATE, Virginia. TOM ROBERTS. Australian Art Library. Editorial Consultant John Henshaw. Melb. Lansdowne Press Pty Ltd. 1972. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 161pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Tom Roberts was born in Dorset in 1856, & migrated to Australia with his family in 1869 to live with relatives in Collingwood. Studying art at night, he was a key member of the Heidelberg School.   #180703          $60

282         SPECK, Catherine. PAINTING GHOSTS. Australian Women Artists in Wartime. Melb. Craftsman House. 2004. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 239pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. During the First World War, many female artists responded to war, with many such as Grace Cossington Smith, Hilda Rix Nicholas, capturing internment camps, & men leaving for the front.   #179229                $40

283         SPROD, Dan. VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN HOBART. From old photographs. Syd. John Ferguson. 1977. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 122pp. (sl foxing) b/w ills. Dustjacket a little worn. Good copy. 1st ed. At the beginning of the Victorian era, Hobart was second only to Sydney in importance as an Australian city and a centre for culture and art. A collection of city scapes and views from Hobart in 1839.   #171692         $45

284         STONE, Carolyn R. & TYSON, Pamela. OLD HOBART TOWN AND ENVIRONS 1802 - 1855.  Lilydale. Pioneer Design Studio. 1978. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 208pp. (sl foxing) Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Humans began inhabiting Tasmania about 18,000 years ago, & lived a fairly isolated life until 1605, when Antonio Van Diemen bumped into Tasmania whilst searching for a passage to Chile.   #181049             $55

285         (STORRIER, Tim) ELEMENTAL RECKONING. The Art of Tim Storrier 1981-2011. By Gavin Wilson. Eglington. Jam Press Pty Ltd. 2011. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 94pp. Prof.ill. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Published as part of a survey exhibition of the paintings of Tim Storrier organised by the National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery in The Rocks, it showcases the artists work from 1981 through to 2011.   #172773                   $55

286         STREETON, Arthur. LETTERS FROM SMIKE. The letters of Arthur Streeton 1890-1943. Compiled and edited by Ann Galbally and Anne Gray. Illustrations chosen by Oliver Streeton. Melb. OUP. 1989. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 224pp. Many b/w photographic ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Many of the letters have not been previously published.   #176595                    $45

287         STRUTT, William. VICTORIA THE GOLDEN. Scenes, sketches and jottings from nature, Melbourne Victoria 1850-1862. With a narrative by Marjorie Tipping. Melb. 1980. Large Oblong Folio. Or.cl. 83pp. Many Col.ills. reproduced in the same size as the originals. A very good copy. 1st ed.    #180337                   $75

288         STUBINGTON, Jill. SINGING THE LAND. The power of performance in Aboriginal life. Foreword by Raymattja Marika. Strawberry Hills. Currency House. 2007. Col.Ill.wrapps. 313pp. Corners a little bent. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. For the Indigenous people of Australia, music is the life blood which connects them with the Dreaming. Songs and dances have encoded their history and their connectedness to the land for 40,000 years.   #172360         $28

289         SULLIVAN, Graeme. SEEING AUSTRALIA. VIEWS OF ARTISTS AND ARTWRITERS.  Annandale. Piper Press. 1994. Folio. Or.Col.Ill.wrapps. 176pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed.    #172005           $27

290         TAYLOR, Elena. GRACE CROWLEY. BEING MODERN.  Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2006. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 64pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. At the age of 13, Grace Crowley submited an ink drawing to New Idea magazine, & won a prize. Inspired by this, she studied art in Paris with the Cubist Andre Lhote, & had her first exhibition in 1939.   #178502                $40

291         THAKE, Eric. THE ERIC THAKE PICTURE BOOK. By Elizabeth Summons.  Melb. Gryphon Books. 1978. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. unpag. Portrait and reproductions of 36 linocuts by the artist. Fine. Edition of 1000 numbered copies.    #181053                     $85

292         THAKE, Eric. PUBS & BARS.  Geelong. Geelong Art Gallery. 1976. Col.Ill.wrapps. 14pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. An exhibition catalogue from Eric Thake's paintings, prints, & drawings inspired by the pubs & bars of Geelong. He spent a day drawing & sketching at the wharves & bars in Geelong.   #178868                   $22

293         THOMAS, Daniel. OUTLINES OF AUSTRALIAN ART. The Joseph Brown Collection. N.Y. Harry N. Abrams Inc. 1989. Folio. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 426pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Outlines of Australian Art presents a chronological survey of the past 200 years of Australian art through the works of the Joseph Brown Collection. Joseph Brown was a leading Australian art dealer.   #176950             $55

294         THOMAS, Daniel. TONY TUCKSON 1921 - 1973. A memorial exhibition. 10 April - 9 May 1976. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Syd. AGNSW. 1976. 8vo. Col.Ill.wrapps. 52pp. Covers lightly soiled. Page edges a little yellowed. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. A catalogue of a memorial exhibition of paintings by Tony Tuckson. Tuckson worked at the Art Gallery of NSW from the 1950s until his passing in 1973. His art was often overshadowed by his gallery work.   #174291            $30

295         THOMAS, Rover. & NICKOLLS, Trevor. 1990 VENICE BIENNALE AUSTRALIA. Artists: Rover Thomas, Trevor Nickolls. Perth. Art Gallery of WA. 1990. Col.Ill.wrapps. 60pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Aboriginal artists Rover Thomas & Trevor Nickolls were invited to participate in the Venice Biennale Australia in 1990 at the Art Gallery of WA. Their work embraces the themes of change & conflict.   #180340                  $30

296         THOMAS, Rover. I WANT TO PAINT.  Perth. Heytesbury P/L. 2003. Oblong Folio. Or.wrapps. 84pp. Many colour illustrations. Fine. 1st ed. The book associated with an exhibition of Rover Thomas's paintings.   #172010        $33

297         TOPLISS, Helen. THE ARTISTS' CAMPS: 'PLEIN AIR' PAINTING IN AUSTRALIA. Ed. by Frank McDonald. Melb. Hedley Australia. 1992. 4to. Or.dec.cl. 214pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine. Signed by the author. 1st ed.    #178506                $80

298         TRAVERS, Robert. AUSTRALIAN MANDARIN. The life and times of Quong Tart. Kenthurst. Kangaroo Press. 1981. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 192pp. b/w ills. (sl foxing) Very good copy. 1st ed. Quong Tart was one of the most fascinating and colourful characters of colonial Sydney. A Mandarin of the Blue Button, honoured by the Dragon Throne by the Peacock Feather, Freemason & fine cricketer.   #171700              $30

299         TRINH, Khanh. UTAMARO. Hymn to Beauty. Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2010. Col.Ill.wrapps. 175pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Kitagawa Utamaro was one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints & paintings. Utamaro's work reached Europe in the 19th century & greatly influenced the Impressionist artists.   #178872                $30

300         (TUCKER, Albert.) ALBERT TUCKER. By Gavin Fry. Syd. Beagle Press. 2005. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 252pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Fine. 1st ed. A penetrating & visually stunning study of the Australian artist's life & artistic development.   #179976                   $75

301         (TUCKER, Albert) ALBERT TUCKER: THE ENDURANCE OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. Exhibition Catalogue. Syd. Lauraine Diggins Fine Art. 2000. Folio. Or.Col.Ill.wrapps. 16pp. Colour illustrations. Very good copy.    #178120         $24

302         TUCKSON, Tony. SMALL FIGURATIVE DRAWINGS.  Syd. Watters Gallery. 2013. Col.Ill.wrapps. 106pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Published to coincide with an exhibition of small figure drawings by abstract expressionist painter, Tony Tuckson. Tuckson was born in Egypt in 1921, & was a war time Spitfire pilot fighting in Europe.   #175810          $40

303         (TUCKSON, Tony.) TONY TUCKSON. By Daniel Thomas, Ren‚e Free & Geoffrey Legge. Syd. Craftsman House. 1989. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 188pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Very good copy. 1st ed. An authoritative overview of the much-varied work of the Australian painter.   #171519         $65

304         TUNNICLIFFE, Wayne & JASPERS, Anneke. (Ed). POP TO POPISM.  Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2014. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 327pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. Exhibition catalogue from the 'Pop To Popism' exhibition held at the AGNSW from November 2014 to March 2015. The exhibition was a who's who of pop art, with all the big names represented.   #171221                $27

305         TWIGDEN, Blake L. PISCES TROPICANI. An artist's collection of portraits of twenty-six species of coral reef fishes, with a commentary by Roger Lubbock. Melb. Lansdowne Editions 1978. Folio. Or.qt.morocco & suede sides. Gilt lettered on spine. unpag. 26 splendid colour plates of fish. Fine. 1st ed. Number 28 of 350 signed numbered copies. With the additional inserted loose plate "Blue-ring Angel-fish", numbered and signed by Blake Twigden. Stunning colour plates by Twigden.   #179979       $185

306         UCKO, Peter J. (Ed). FORM IN INDIGENOUS ART. Schematisation in the art of Aboriginal Australia and prehistoric Europe. Prehistory and Material Culture Series No. 13. New Jersey. Gerald Duckworth & Co. 1977. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 486pp. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A look at the art works of Aboriginal Australia from the past & present, as seen in the context of the art of prehistoric Europe. An attempt at an ethnographic juxtaposition of prehistoric art.   #176955                $40

307         UNDERHILL, Nancy. SIDNEY NOLAN. A life. Syd. UNSW Press Ltd. 2015. 8vo. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 416pp. col & b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Depending on who you believe, Sidney Nolan was a larrikin, a genius, a master manipulator, a man who longed to leave Australia, or a painter who yearned for home. Underhill knew Nolan as all of these.   #174293         $38

308         VASSALLO, Melinda. STREET ART OF SYDNEY'S INNER WEST.  Syd. China Insight Australia Ltd. 2009. OblongFolio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 177pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Sponsored by Marrickville Council, Melinda Vassallo set out to document the street art of Sydney's inner west. From graffiti tags to entire walls decorated with spray painted graphics & typography.   #178509       $37

309         WALDING, Murray. & VUKOVIC, Nick. PLASTERED. The poster art of Australian popular music. Carlton. The Miegunyah Press. 2007. (rep) Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 303pp. Inscription on ffe. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. A chronological journey through popular music poster art from the 1950s to the 2000s. Posters were a way of promoting a rock, pop, jazz or punk band to passers by. Many beautifully illustrated examples   #175811          $50

310         WALDING, Murray. & VUKOVIC, Nick. PLASTERED. The poster art of Australian Popular Music. Carlton. The Miegunyah Press. 2007. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 303pp. Wrapps covered in plastic. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Nick Vukovic's music poster collection highlights the ephemral nature of the live music scene in Australia. Some may be of bands that you have seen, or wish you had seen, others showcase poster art.   #176959          $45

311         WALLER, Christian. THE GREAT BREATH. A Book of Seven Designs. Melb. Gryphon Books. 1978. Folio. Or.dec.cl. unpag. (ivpp.) + 7 leaves onto each of which is printed a design from a linocut by Christian Waller. Very good copy. Edition of 600 numbered copies signed by Klytie Pate. Two additional copies of two of the plates are inserted.   #180914                $195

312         WALSH, Grahame L. BRADSHAW ART OF THE KIMBERLEY.  Toowong. Takarakka Nowan Kas Publs. 2000. Oblong Folio. Or.bds. 464pp. Profusely illustrated in colour with much of the Aboriginal splendid rock art of the Kimberley region. Fine copy. 1st ed. Very Scarce.    #179798            $2750

313         WERE, Ian. (Ed). KISS OF THE BEAST. From Paris Salon to King Kong. Sth. Brisbane. Qld Art Gallery. 2005. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 127pp. col & b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Kiss Of the Beat was an integrated exhibition presented by Australian Cinematheque at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2005. It presented images of gorillas, wild beasts, & monsters in art & film.   #179250                    $30

314         WESTALL, William. DRAWINGS. By William Westall, Landscape artist on board H.M.S. Investigator during the circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders R.N. in 1801-1803. Ed. by T.M.Perry & Donald H. Simpson. Lond. Royal Commonwealth Society. 1962. Large Folio. Or.cl. 68pp. 128 b/w plates. 9 maps including a folding frontispiece map and a large folding map in back pocket. Very good copy. 1st ed. Includes essays on the charting of Australia by Flinders.   #180356                     $120

315         WHEELER, Charles. THE ART OF CHARLES WHEELER. By James S. MacDonald. Melb. 1952. 4to. d.w. 33pp. + 15 tipped-in Col.plates plus 19 b/w plates. Sl. foxing else Fine. 1st ed. Scarce. The standard reference on Wheeler.   #173881           $75

316         WHITE, Anthony. (Ed). FRIDA KAHLO, DIEGO RIVERA AND MEXICAN MODERNISM. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Canberra. National Gallery of Aust. 2001. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 96pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Published to accompany an exhibition at the NGA of works from the Gelman Collection. The Russian film producer befriended Frida & Diago, & collected many works over the course of their friendship.   #176206                $33

317         WHITELEY, Brett. ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT VINCENT VAN GOGH. Paintings, drawings, photographs, silkscreen prints, etchings and sculptures created over a period of fifteen years. Foreword by Edmund Capon. Melb. Richard Griffin. 1983. 4to. Or.cl. d.w. 60pp. Sl foxing to cloth. Profusely illustrated with col. & b/w plates. Slight warping to pages. Good copy. Brett Whiteley first came into contact with the art of Van Gogh in a tiny art book that he found on the floor of St Stephen's Church in Bathurst in 1952. This copy is numbered 448 of 500 copies.   #179465          $45

318         WHITELEY, Brett (Ill.) WALLED GARDEN. Poems from N.S.W. Prisons. Syd. Ball & Chain Press. 1978. Or.wrapps. with Brett Whiteley ill. 127pp. b/w. ills. by Whiteley throughout. Sl.foxing on wrapper else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce.    #176607                     $45

319         WILKINS, Lola. (Ed). ARTISTS IN ACTION. From the collection of the Australian War Memorial. Fishermans Bend. Thames & Hudson. 2003. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 172pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. A selection of artworks from the colleciton of the Australian War Memorial. The artworks chosen relate to all military services, & cover most of the major conflicts that Australia has engaged in.   #177798                $48

320         WILKINS, Lola (Ed.) ARTISTS IN ACTION. From the collection of the Australian War Memorial. Canb. AWM. 2003. Folio. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 172pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the editor Lola Wilkins. Artworks held by the Australian War Memorial.   #176828                     $75

321         WILLIAMS, Fred. ETCHINGS. Introduction: John Brack. Catalogue: James Mollison. Woollahra. Rudy Komon Gallery. 1968. 4to. Or.cl. Dustjacket. 132pp. Dustjacket slightly soiled. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Fred Williams has always found etching to be an important part of his painting output. Gathered here are some of his landscape & portraiture work in black & white with some colour etchings.   #179466               $135

322         WILSON, Gavin. THE ARTISTS OF HILL END.  Lond. Art Gallery of NSW. 1995,. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 124pp. Marks to half title page. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Published as part of an exhibiton by the AGNSW, Hill End sprung up as a town during the gold rush of the 1870s, & was artistically discovered by Russell Drysdale, becoming an artists colony in 1940.   #179255     $45

323         WITT-DORRING, Christian. (et al). VIENNA ART & DESIGN. Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos. Melb. National Gallery of Victoria. 2011. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 302pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the art and design of Vienna from the 1900s, which included the works of artists and designers, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Joseph Hoffmann, and Adolf Loos.   #173516                  $45

324         WOLFE, Art. VANISHING ACT. The artistry of animal camouflage. Syd. Australian Geographic. 2015. Oblong 4to. Col.ill.bds. 222pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Wildlife photographer Art Wolfe turns his lens on one of the animal kingdom's most fundamental survival techniques, camouflage. In these stunning photographs you can struggle to find the hidden animal.   #174634          $47

325         WOOD, Ashley. GRANDE FANTA V.2. Ashley Wood Artwork 2000 - 2004. San Diego. IDW Publishing. 2005. Col.Ill.wrapps. 304pp. (sl foxing) to top edge. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Ashely Wood is an Australian comic book artist & award winning illustrator. Wood worked in the UK on the Judge Dredd comic, before breaking into the US market where he worked for Marvel & DC Comics.   #181070                    $47

326         WOOD, Ghislaine. ART DECO 1919-1939.  Melb. National Gallery of Victoria. 2008. Folio. Col.Ill.wrapps. 317pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Published to accompany a joint exhibition between the Victoria & Albert Museum & the National Gallery of Victoria of Art Deco masterpieces. Curated by Ghislaine Wood, with accompanying essays.   #173517        $60

327         YIN, Cao. TANG. Treasures from the Silk Road capital Syd. Art Gallery of NSW. 2016. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 165pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. The ancient capital of China was Chang'an, situated at the heart of the silk road, it flourished during the Tang dynasty (618-907). A collection of diverse artefacts from this cosmopolitan city.   #176975                    $27

328         (YIRAWALA) YIRAWALA: ARTIST AND MAN. By Sandra Le Brun Holmes. Bris. Jacaranda. 1972. 4to. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 92pp. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. Very Good copy. 1st ed. One of the great traditional Aboriginal artists.   #176976                $60

329         (ZOFREA, Salvatore.) SALVATORE ZOFREA. By Stephanie Claire & Anna Waldmann.  Syd. Hale & Iremonger. 1983. 4to. Or.qt.leather. 144pp. 62 plates in col & b/w and many b/w. ills. Fine in the slip-case. 1st ed. The limited edition, one of 200 copies signed by the artist and with two signed original etchings bound in.   #174143                $275

330         ZOFREA, Salvatore. FIFTY PORTRAITS. With introduction by Andrew Sayers. Interviews by Stephanie Claire. Photography by Shawn Connell. Canb. National Portrait Gallery 2002. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 135pp. Profusely illustrated in colour. Very good copy. 1st ed. Salvatore Zofrea emigrated to Australia in 1956 from a war torn southern Italy. He began studying at the Julan Ashton School in Sydney, later winning the Sulman Prize on three occasions.   #176978                 $38

331         ZOFREA, Salvatore. UN'ODISSEA ITALO-AUSTRALIANA.  Rome. Edizioni De Luca. 1994. 4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 44pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white. Very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed by the artist. An exhibition of Italian-Australian artist Salvatore Zofrea's woodcuts that was held in Rome in 1994 as part of a celebration of Zofrea's Italian heritage on behalf of the NSW Ministry for the Arts.   #176829                 $40

332         ZUSTERS, Reinis. SPIRAL VISION.  Syd. Bay Books. 1981. Oblong folio. Ill.bds. 176pp. (sl foxing) Numerous plates in col & b/w. Very good copy. 1st ed. Reinis Zusters arrived in Australia from Latvia in 1950. He was among a number of artists who came from Europe in the decade following WWII. A selection of his paintings & drawing appear in this book.   #172373               $55

 

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