Celebrated Photographers
Olive Cotton
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34 Tree Frolic
1960/1995. Silver gelatin print, printed by Sydney Dark Room, titled and dated in another hand in the margin below left, signed below right, 29.5 x 34.5cm.

$6,500
35 Radio Telescope
1963/1995. Silver gelatin print, printed by Sydney Dark Room, titled and dated in the margin below left, signed below right, 31 x 30cm.
With annotation by Olive verso: "I think this print is OK".

$5,500
36 The Lonely Road
1964/1994. Silver gelatin print, titled and dated in the margin below left, numbered 4/25 below centre and signed below right, 28 x 31cm.

$7,500
37 The White Gum
Canberra, 1972/c.1990. Silver gelatin print, titled and dated in ink in the margin below left, signed in ink below right, 44.4 x 40.5cm.

$8,500
38 Flight
1982/c.1990. Silver gelatin print, titled & dated in ink in margin below left, signed in ink below right, 49x40.6cm.

$9,500
39 Dead Sunflowers
1984/1995. Silver gelatin print, printed by Sydney Dark Room, titled and dated in the margin below left, signed below right, 30 x 29.8cm.
With annotation by Olive verso: "I like this print as it is: if printed a bit lighter the sky would be lost".
$7,500
40 Wild Plums
1984/1992. Silver gelatin print, titled and dated in the margin below left, numbered 4/25 below centre and signed below right, 38 x 30.5cm.

$8,500
41 Vapour Trail
1991/1995. Silver gelatin print, printed by Sydney Dark Room, titled and dated in another hand in the margin below left, signed below right, 32.5 x 27.5cm.

$7,500
42 Quince Blossom...
Quince Blossom and Trees, 1992 [V]. Silver gelatin print, titled and dated in the margin below left, signed below right, 21 x 18.8cm.

$8,500
43 Moths...
Moths on the Windowpane, 1995/1999. Silver gelatin print, printed by Roger Scott, A/Ed, 20.5 x 12.8cm.

$1,100
Olive Cotton. Photographer, National Library of Australia, 1995.
Book contains an original photograph, Gerberas, by Olive Cotton, signed by her, tipped-in with photographic corners to flyleaf. Introduction by Helen Ennis, personal memory by Sally McInerney, published by NLA in 1995. Small 4to (30.5 x 22cm), viii + 71 + (1) pp., 67 duotone plates, brown buckram with gold tooled lettering. Special Edition of 130 specially bound copies, issued in 1995 by Josef Lebovic Gallery to celebrate Olive Cotton's contribution to Australian photography.


$1,550
Olive Cotton, Helen Ennis, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000.
Book contains an original photograph, The Patterned Road (1938), by Olive Cotton, signed by her daughter, Sally McInerney, tipped-in with photographic corners to flyleaf. Published by AGNSW in 2000. Small square 4to (24 x 22cm), 64pp, duotone plates, red bonded leather with gold tooled lettering. Special Edition of 150 specially bound copies of which 135 are for sale, issued in 2000 by Josef Lebovic Gallery to commemorate the exhibition of Olive's work at the AGNSW.

$950