Focus on Women
Collectors' List 126 2007

124 Jon Lewis (Australian, b.1950)
Valerie As Rangda, Bali, 1986/2005. Silver gelatin photograph, signed and dated in ink in lower margin, titled, signed and dated in pencil verso, 40.9 x 50.5cm.
$1,650
125 Jon Lewis (Australian, b.1950)
Valerie - Balinese Hat, 1986/2005. Silver gelatin photograph, signed and dated in ink in lower margin, titled, signed and dated in pencil verso, 40.9 x 50.6cm.
$1,650
126 Roger Mayne (British, b.1929)
Women, Southam Street, North Kensington [London], 1961. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed, titled and dated in pencil verso, 41.9 x 59.4cm. Old creases to edges of image, faint diagonal embossed lines to image centre and lower right.
Illustrated in The Street Photographs of Roger Mayne, V&A, 1986, p52. British photographer, most famous for his documentation of the children of Southam Street, Notting Hill, London, which he photographed from 1956 to 1961. Southam Street collection is considered to be an important archive, and is now held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Southam Street was demolished in 1969.
$7,950
127 Robert McFarlane (Australian, b.1942)
Madammes Topless A Go Go, William Street, Kings Cross, 1966/2005. Selenium toned silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated, signed and annotated "Selenium toned" in pencil by McFarlane, and annotated "Printed by Roger Scott" by Scott in pencil verso, 24.8 x 36.9cm.
$1,100
128 Robert McFarlane (Australian, b.1942)
Bea Nude, 1979. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated and signed in ink in lower margin, 25.7 x 16.6cm. Minor dents to image and margin centre left. Framed.
Considered to be McFarlane's key image.
$4,400
129 Milligan Brother /
Thomas Glaister
(Australian, active 1854-1870)
Mr And Mrs Kinder, Mrs Bertrand, Mr Bertrand, c1866. Albumen paper photograph, three carte-de-visite portraits on one proof sheet, 7.8 x 15.5cm (sheet).
Accompanied by a contemporary newspaper article which includes portraits of the Kinders and Bertrands. Illustrated in Holden, Photography in Colonial Australia, 1988, p102. Provenance: Toogood collection. A sensational trial captured the imagination of Victorian Sydney, when Bertrand was found guilty of murdering Henry Kinder. Bertrand had been conducting an affair with Ellen Kinder and had shot her husband. Bertrand stood trial twice - with damning evidence from his sister. He was not hanged, however, as the evidence at the second trial was read out by a clerk of the court, and not taken firsthand. He served 28 years in prison.

$2,200