The Art of Water
Collectors' List 121 2006

121 Gerard W. Willott
[Elizabeth Bay Apartments], c1935. Watercolour, signed in ink lower right, 23.6 x 29.5cm.

$440
122 Unk White (1900-1986)
Ex-Libris [pirate], 1936. Pen and ink drawing, dated and signed in ink lower right, 18 x 14cm.

$440
123 Anon
Sun and Surf at Sydney, 1937. Silver gelatin photograph, typed title with caption on label, date and press stamp verso, 16.1 x 20.9cm. Retouching with black and white for publishing, old creases.
Caption reads "Where it is still summer and whence this picture has just arrived." Stamp reads "Australian News & Picture Service, 253/6 Grand Building, Trafalgar Sq, London WC1."

$440
124 Robert Emerson Curtis (1898-1996)
The Heart of Sydney …, 1938. Colour process lithograph, poster with captions, date and poem, 47.3 x 59.2cm. Repaired old folds across image, linen backed.
Title continues "in the year 1938." Text includes "Published by John Fairfax and Sons Pty Ltd, Sydney. A Sydney Morning Herald publication." Animated, aerial view of Sydney.
$1,650
125 Robert Emerson Curtis (1898-1996)
Shipbuilding, c1938. Watercolour, gouache and colour pencil, titled and signed in pencil below, titled, initialled and annotated in ink verso, 15.3 x 19.8cm.
Annotation reads "Poster design for arch over Macquarie St, Sydney for Sesquintenary Celebrations."
$660
126 Frans Masereel (Belgian, 1889-1972)
La Nageuse (The Bather), 1938. Woodcut, initialled and dated in block lower right, titled, signed and dated in pencil in margin below, 29.7 x 40cm. Printing smudges to image and margin above.
JLG3647

$1,650
127 Littlewood
[Tattooed Sailor], c1940s. Pen and ink drawing, signed lower left, annotated below, stamp verso, 15.8 x 11.5cm.
Annotation reads "'Salt', May 25." Stamp reads "Army Education Service."

$440
128 James Phillips (b.1915)
Four Old Wives, c1940s. Ink, wash and crayon, signed in ink upper left, titled in pencil below image, 10.4 x 45.7cm. Crease to centre, minor soiling to edges.
Phillips was an illustrator working in Sydney during 1930s - 1940s.

$440
129 Robert Emerson Curtis (1898-1996)
[North Queensland Township], c1940s. Watercolour, signed lower right, 24.3 x 34.9cm.
Another watercolour of beach and rocks verso.

$770
130 Muriel Medworth (1903-1964)
[Spanish Balcony with Flower Pots], 1943. Watercolour with pencil, signed and dated in pencil lower left, 31.8 x 48.4cm.
Provenance: Artist's estate.

$1,650