1949. Coloured pencil with graphite, titled, signed and dated lower centre to right, 21.1 x 30.3cm. Trimmed lower edge, minor foxing centre left and lower right. Australia’s first studio potter William Merric Boyd also produced a large body of drawings often showing his strong imagery of trees. More

c1949. Ink with watercolour in four panels, signed in fourth panel and annotated “2612, Sat. Jan. 29” in ink in right margin, 19.2 x 58.4cm. Slight stains and pinholes to margins. The “Bluey and Curley” comic strip, created for the magazine Picture-News in 1940, featured two eponymous Australian soldiers who..... More

c1950s. Pencil drawing, initialled, annotated “U/S” and “A100” in ink lower right, titled in pencil in French verso, 19 x 24.3cm (paper). Minor tears to right edge, slight stains. Provenance: artist’s sister, Margery Ann Strachan. More

c1950s. Gouache and crayon, signed in pencil upper left with crayon sketch verso, 27.5 x 19.4cm. More

c1940s-1950s. Ink and wash, signed lower right, titled in pencil with various publishing annotations in lower margin, 38.7 x 26.5cm. Soiling overall, crease and slight crinkles to margins. Caption in lower portion of image reads “Australia”, cancelled caption in upper portion of image reads “Russian Successes.” This work was most..... More

c1950s. Ink and wash, signed lower left, various publishing annotations in pencil in lower margin, 38.6 x 26.5cm. Soiling overall, crease and slight crinkles to margins. Captions in image read “Inflation” and “wage earner.”. More

c1950s. Ink and wash with coloured pencil in 12 panels, numbered “6-26” and signed in ink lower right, 36.5 x 58.4cm. Tears to upper edge, slight creases and minor stains overall. Comic strip about Fatty Finn and his father avoiding family commitments in which the father gets caught out. Fatty..... More

c1950s. Oil on board, titled and annotated “15 gns” in ink on frame verso, 22.8 x 27.7cm. Framed. More

c1950s. Carbon drawing, titled lower centre, 23.7 x 18cm (paper). Slight stains and indentation to upper portion of image, glue remnants verso. This was a proposed advertisement to be published in a University of Sydney theatre programme. J. Stanley Johnston was a prominent Sydney music publisher and retailer during the..... More

c1950. Two pencil drawings, one on tracing paper, both annotated “Goulburn” and initialled in pencil lower right, one captioned in ink verso, 34.5 x 24.6cm (approx. each). Slight stains and creases, old folds. Caption reads “Sketch for Goulburn feature, painted in new air-conditioned express trains. NSW Rly.” Sketches show the..... More

c1950s. Six drawings, four in pencil, one in ink, one in coloured pencil, five initialled and two captioned in ink or pencil, 15.5 x 12.4cm to 30.6 x 11cm. Foxing, slight creases. Captions include “The wool dance” and “Into the ‘shed’, off with the wool, release!” Four images show a...... More

c1950s. Colour pencil and graphite, signed lower right, 32.5 x 24.5cm. Creases to image edges, missing upper left corner. An avid practitioner of pantheism, “Norton had special reverence for the Great God Pan and regarded him as the Totality of All Being, as the true god of the world and..... More

c1951. Ink and crayon with white gouache, signed [Will Mahony (Aust., 1905-1989)] in ink lower left, titled in colour pencil in lower margin, 24.6 x 33.3cm. Minor foxing, soiling to margins. Captions read “Clive Evatt. Labor reconstruction, unlimited work for all” and “Cripes! They make me feel tired!” Clive Evatt..... More