Australian Artists A-D
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# 34638
LOCK, Tracey
Dorrit Black : unseen forces
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2017. Second edition. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 224, illustrated. Corners bumped and rubbed, sold as a damaged, working reference copy. “Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces was written by Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Paintings & Sculpture at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Dorrit Black is the last major Australian …
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# 34637
NORTH, Ian
The art of Dorrit Black
Melbourne: Macmillan and the Art Gallery of South Australia, 1979. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp 152; a fine copy. The standard monograph on the artist, illustrated throughout with a detailed catalogue.
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# 34582
BRACK, John; BRACK, Helen; SAYERS, Andrew
Portraits by John Brack.
Text by Andrew Sayers, Helen Brack, and Sasha Grishin. Canberra: National Portrait Gallery, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 62pp. illustrated with full page reproductions of Brack’s portraits, exhibition checklist. An excellent work on the artist’s portraiture. A fine copy
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# 34485
BORLAND, Polly
Polly Borland : Australians.
London : National Portrait Gallery, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 120, illustrated. Essay by Peter Conrad, biographies and interviews by Virginia Ginnane. Foreword by Nick Cave. Includes portraits of Barry Humphries, Ron Mueck, Marc Newson, Harry Kewell, Clive James, Elisabeth Murdoch, Germaine Greer, Natalie Imbruglia, Richie Benaud, Cate Blanchett, Kylie Minogue and many others.
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# 34546
DAVILA, Juan
365
Santiago de Chile : Gronefot Ediciones, March 2020. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. [76], illustrated. “This publication reproduces a selection of sketches done during 2018 by the artist Juan Davila in a ‘sketch book’ of 365 numbered pages. The selected sketches were ones done preliminary to his exhibition of 2019. ‘Painting and ambiguity’, at the Contemporary …
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# 34517
CONNOR, Kevin; HASTINGS, Elizabeth
Kevin Connor paintings and drawings 1983 – 2016
Selected and edited by Lou Klepac. With contributions by Barry Pearce, Hendrik Kolenberg and Margaret Connor. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2016. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 204, fully illustrated. A fine copy. Kevin Connor, born 1932, has had an exceptional career as an artist. He has won the Archibald prize on two occasions as …
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# 34516
[CONNOR, Kevin]
Kevin Connor : paintings and drawings 1947-88
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1989. Square octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp 46. Colour illustrations throughout.
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# 33731
[UNSW]; TAYLOR, Peter (publisher); BELL, Stephen (editor); BOWERS, Steve (artist);
[THARUNKA] The Satyricon Review
Sydney : Peter Taylor, Director of Student Publications, UNSW, 1971. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), illustrated wrappers with design by Steve Bowers, stapled; pp. 48, illustrated; a fine copy. The student newspaper Tharunka, the mouthpiece of the University of New South Wales Students’ Union, was founded in 1953. The 1971 Foundation Day issue was published …
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# 34460
ADAMS, Tate
The first vines : with 42 wood-engravings by Tate Adams
Melbourne : Macmillan, and Brisbane : The State Library of Queensland, 2006. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth with pictorial inlay to upper board, illustrated endpapers, pp. 95, illustrated. Preface by John Olsen. Tate Adams produced the 43 wood-engravings of pioneering Australian wineries over the six years leading up to the nation’s bicentenary celebrations in 1988. Each winery …
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# 34199
COVENY, Christopher
Twenty scenes from the works of Dickens designed & etched by Christopher Coveny
Sydney : Thomas H. Feilding, 1883. Quarto, quarter morocco over gilt-lettered cloth (stained and worn), endpapers replaced, etched title page, twenty detailed etchings with accompanying letterpress, the seventh plate presented in two versions, scattered foxing and light offsetting, the third plate with water stains to the edges. Ferguson 9140A. Scarce Australian illustrated presentation of Dickens’ …
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# 34440
SMITH, Geoffrey
Russell Drysdale 1912 – 81 (hardcover)
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1997. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 200, a couple of small spots of foxing, illustrated. The uncommon hardcover edition.
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# 34434
McHUGH, Vincent (1904 - 1983); ADAMS, Tate (1922 - 2018)
Alpha : the mutabilities
Poems by Vincent McHugh ; with wood engravings by Tate Adams.San Francisco : The Porpoise Bookshop, 1958. Folio, letterpress wrappers (lightly handling wear), stringbound, pp. [16], letterpress text by McHugh and wood engravings by Adams. A very good copy. Poems & Pictures series number eleven. 137 copies printed by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press. …
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# 34430
[BOYD]. BOASE, T. S. R.
Nebuchadnezzar
34 paintings and 18 drawings by Arthur Boyd. London : Thames and Hudson, 1972. Quarto hardcover with illustrated dustjacket, richly illustrated with numerous tipped-in colour plates, text by T. S. R. Boase. Dustjacket is lightly marked, a fine copy.
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# 34429
DEACON, Destiny
Destiny
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2021. Quarto, illustrated flushcut boards, 21.3 x 27.6 cm, pp. 286, illustrated. New copy. Australian artist Destiny Deacon, a Kuku and Erub/Mer (North-East Cape York and Torres Strait) woman, is known for having coined the term ‘blak’, in a reclaiming and recasting of a word with myriad connotations of …
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# 34423
BECKETT, Clarice.
Clarice Beckett. Politically Incorrect.
Melbourne: Ian Potter Museum of Art, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (heavily sunned, as commonly found), 76pp., illustrated, previous owner’s name to endpaper. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies, now scarce. Text by Rosalind Hollinrake.
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# 34418
EAGLE, Mary
The art of Rupert Bunny in the Australian National Gallery
Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1991. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp. 258, illustrated. A fine monograph on Bunny; the hardcover edition is scarce.