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	3 Julia Ashton Photograph by Harold Cazneaux Julian Ashton Life Class, c.1920s, estate stamp, 29.5 x 24.1cm. Julian Ashton Life Class… Model Mr. Rodd inscribed on original backing board, and inscribed again … Mr Rudd… Represented in Cazneaux collections of NLA and ANG.	$2,950
	4 Arthur Boyd Photograph by Hugh Frankland, c.1950. Silver gelatin print, 16.2 x 21.5cm.	$490
	5 William Dobell Autograph document, Official Opening Wangi Workers Club Saturday 30th January, 1965, By William Dobell, Wangi, 1965. Souvenir booklet, two-colour wrappers, 12pp., large 8vo. Autographed by Bill Dobell and dated '65 in blue ink inside front cover. Autographed by William Dobell above his own photographic portrait affixed to inside front cover. The programme also contains photographs of the Club's executive officers, and the modern interior and facilities . Wangi is a familiar subject of Dobell's work. Provenance: Club staff member at the time.	$490
	6 George Finey Photograph (anon), c.1950s. Silver gelatin print, 30.7 x 38.1cm. Portrait of the Australian cartoonist, hanging up his boots as art indoors.	$490
	7 Norman Lindsay Lionel Lindsay, Portrait of Norman Lindsay etching at Faulconbridge, 1918. Etching, signed below, numbered 13 (of 50) and inscribed, 18.9 x 14.0cm. Framed. Inscribed To Dr. Herbert Schlink with the etcher's regard. Dec 1918. Mendelsohn #172.	$2,500
	8 Norman Lindsay Photograph (anon), Society of Artists Selection Committee 1907, 1907. Silver gelatin print, 15 x 20.5cm. A relaxing picnic after the rigours of selecting art works for the annual exhibition. Sitting left to right are Julian Ashton, Rose Lindsay, Harry Weston, Will Dyson, Norman Lindsay, D.H. Souter's son, Sid Long, D.H. Souter.	$1,950
	9 Godfrey Miller Photograph by Kerry Dundas, c.1948/later printing. Silver gelatin print, signed in pencil on the image lower right, 25 x 28cm. Godfrey Miller (1893-1964), born in Wellington, NZ, began his career in painting after moving to Melbourne in 1918. He painted simple subjects - still lifes, landscapes and the human figure.	$1,500
	10 Rosaleen Norton Press photograph, 1949. Silver gelatin print, 24.2 x 18.7cm. Old creases. Press photograph of the well-known "Witch of the Cross" beside one of her paintings which caused a furore. The dates stamped verso indicate the photograph was still being used in 1979, the year she died. Born in N.Z. during a thunderstorm in 1917, Rosaleen Norton moved to Sydney 1924, studied art (she was thrown out), worked as artist's model, journalist (until the strange nature of her drawings ended her job), and artist - her exhibitions were always raided by police. She settled in Kings Cross, and was regarded as the local witch.	$490
	11 Pixie O'Harris Photograph by Sally McInerney, Pixie O'Harris, 1971/1995. Silver gelatin print, titled, dated and signed, 20 x 26cm. Rhona Olive (Pixie) O'Harris (1903-1995) born in Wales, emigrated to Australia 1920. On the voyage out 16-year-old Rhona was given the nickname she assumed for the rest of her life. Working as a commercial artist in Sydney, The Pixie O. Harris Fairy Book (1925), an illustrated collection of radio stories, made her name. She published over 22 books.	$550
	12 War Artists Photograph by Max Dupain, Clem Seale Sketching Bob (Robert Emerson) Curtis. Goodenough Island, 1944/1970s. Silver gelatin print, authentication stamp signed by Rex Dupain verso, 34.8 x 30cm. Max Dupain, an official war photographer, took this picture of war artist, Clem Seale, sketching fellow war artist, Robert Emerson Curtis on Goodenough Island (now Rarotonga, largest of the Cook Islands) in 1944.	$2,500