72 John Kauffmann (Australian, 1864-1942)
Aniseed, c1920s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in
green, titled and signed in pencil on backing below image, 14.6
x 20.6cm. Laid down on original backing.
Kauffmann
was one of the most significant and creative Australian exponents
of a style of art photography known as Pictorialism. Born in
Adelaide, Kauffmann went to Europe from 1887 to 1897 to study
art photography. By 1917 he was established as a professional
photographer in Melbourne.
$2,500
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73 Laurence Le Guay (Australian, 1917- 1990)
New Guinea Couple, c1955. Vintage silver gelatin photograph,
annotations in French and English in various hands, including
photographer's name and "New Guinea", and French exhibition
and credit line stamp verso, 24.3 x 20cm. Cracks to lower right
corner of image and margins.
This
image was included in the touring exhibition The Family of Man,
curated for MoMA in 1955 by Edward Steichen. The exhibition included
503 photographs from 68 countries. Originally, Le Guay was commissioned
by Sir Edward Halstrom, director of Taronga Park Zoo, to take
photographs in New Guinea. Illustrated in Steichen, The Family
of Man, MoMA, NY, 1955, p8.
$5,500
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74 Laurence Le Guay (Australian, 1917-1990)
[Quintet Of Bikinis], c1960s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph,
posthumous Le Guay estate stamp verso, 29.1 x 22.3cm. Minor retouching
to image upper left.
$2,200
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75 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.
Illustrated
in Max Pam (ed.), Visual Instincts: Contemporary Australian
Photography, Canberra, 1989. Held in the National Gallery
of Australia collection.
$3,000
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76 Robert McFarlane (Australian,b.1942)
Young Photographer, Anzac Day, Sydney, 1967/2005. Seleniumtoned
silver gelatin photograph, signed, titled, dated and annotated
"Printed by Roger Scott" in pencil verso, 25.1 x 37.1cm.
Held
in the National Gallery of Australia collection under alternate
title Girl Taking Photographs in Anzac Day Crowd, Sydney.
$1,350
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77 Robert McFarlane (Australian b.1942)
Tiny Tim And Transsexual Miss Natasha On Set Of Martin Sharp
Film "Street Of Dreams", 1979/later printing. Silver
gelatin photograph, titled, dated and signed in ink verso, 22.5
x 33.2cm.
$1,350
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78 Sally McInerney (Australian, b.1946)
A Woman Of Mystery (Selfportrait), 1966/1984. Silver gelatin
photograph, titled, dated and signed in ink in lower margin,
annotated in pencil verso, 15.3 x 16.7cm. Minor retouching to
surface.
Annotation
reads "Self-portrait at Spring Forest."
$1,100
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79 William H. Moffitt (Australian, 1888- 1948)
Dull Morning - Port Macquarie, 1927. Bromoil, signed and dated
in pencil on image lower right, titled in pencil below image,
15.3 x 25.7cm.
Provenance:
William Moffitt estate.
$1,650
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