International & Australian Works on Paper
Collectors' List 123 2007
165 Frank Weitzel (1905-1932)
Island Legend, c1930. Two-colour linocut, monogrammed in block lower right, titled and signed in ink by Weitzel with various pricing annotations in lower margin, 20.7 x 22.5cm. Slight foxing overall, tape and glue stains to margins, uneven edges.
Annotation notes two previous selling prices "$7.50" and "£1.1.0." Weitzel only produced 14 linocut images during his short career.
 $1,000
166 Title
Text166 Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931-2004). [Foot Design for the Olympics], 1970. Colour screenprint, editioned 164/200, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 87 x 63.5cm. Linen-backed.
This is from a limited edition prior to its issue as an Olympic poster. Wesselmann was one of the 28 international artists who were commissioned to design a poster for the Games of the XXth Olympiad.
$1,650
167 James McNeil Whistler (American/British, 1834-1903)
a) An Interior [with Figures]; b) Grande Rue, Dieppe, 1891/1912. Pair of tinted lithographs printed on one sheet, titles, artist and text on accompanying original tissue paper, a) 4.3 x 4.9cm; b) 7.1 x 12.2cm. Slight discolouration overall.
Levy #59, AIC #44, Way #146. Text reads "Two trial sketches. (Original lithographs by Whistler. Above - An Interior; Below - Grande Rue, Dieppe)." This lithograph was issued only in a posthumous edition by Way in 1912 for Memories of James McNeil Whistler.
 $1,1000
168 James McNeil Whistler (American/British, 1834-1903)
La Robe Rouge, 1894. Lithograph, monogrammed with butter-fly in image centre left, blind stamp "The Studio London" in lower margin, 18.8 x 15.5cm.
Way #68, Levy #96, lists title. Second state. Published in the 15 November 1895 issue of The Studio. Impressions from this edition are found in many museum and library collections.
 $1,000
169 Susan Dorothea White (b.1941)
The Fisherman's Dream, 1980. Colour lithograph, monogrammed in image lower left, editioned 11/18, titled, signed and dated in pencil on image lower left to right, annotated in pencil verso, 40.2 x 60cm.
Annotation reads "8 colours bleed print "Fisherman's Dream." Susan White is an internationally known artist living and working in Sydney. She is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, teacher of drawing and author of Draw Like Da Vinci (London: Cassell, 2006).
 $1,000
170 Susan Dorothea White (b.1941)
Atlass [sic], 1991. Lithograph, printed in blue ink, monogrammed in image lower right, editioned 14/20, titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 48.7 x 34.3cm.
Susan White is an internationally known artist living and working in Sydney. She is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, teacher of drawing, and author of Draw Like Da Vinci (London: Cassell, 2006).
 $770
171 Fred Williams (1927-1982)
The Bath, 1956. Etching, editioned 5/6, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 17.7 x 12.6cm. Minor cockling overall, deep platemarks, slight mount burn, tape remnants verso.
Mollison #99, lists title. There were four states - the plate was trimmed (right side) for the second state. This impression is from the first state which is the only uncut version.
 $4,400
172 Fred Williams (1927-1982)
The Engagement Ring. Number 2, 1956. Etching, editioned 11/12, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 15.1 x 9.9cm. Slight stains to margins.
Mollison #88, lists title.
 $3,800
173 Fred Williams (1927-1982)
[Horizontal Landscapes], 1975. Two-colour lithograph, printed on Arches paper, editioned 50/250, signed and dated in pencil with Arches and publisher's blind stamps in lower margin, 45.5 x 65.8cm.
 $2,200
174 Rhys Williams (1894-1976)
The Jinker, c1930s. Linocut, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 8.5 x 12.2cm. Uneven margins with old mount burn and stains not affecting image.
Uncommon work by Williams; he produced only a small number of linocuts early in his career.
 $770
175 After Charles Wyllie (British, 1853-1923)
[Thames, London], 1888. Etching with Chine-collé, date and publisher in plate above image, artist and etcher in plate lower left to right, blind stamp and signed by Wyllie and Massé in pencil on plate below image, 48.3 x 76.1cm. Paper loss, minor soiling and insect damage not affecting image.
Publisher's line reads "London, published 28 January 1888 by J.P. Mendoza, St James's Gallery, King Street, St James's. Copyright registered." This is a proof on India Paper, before letters (title is not yet engraved). Publishers often did special issues for collectors, where the artist and etcher (engraver) would sign the proof.
 $1,350