![Item #CL205-51 Double Bay Pulsates With Cosmopolitan Sophistication [Sydney, NSW]. George...](/pictures/thumb/CL205-51.JPG?v=1655438305)
c1970s. Watercolour with ink, captioned and signed upper left to right and lower left, 31.1 x 39.8cm. Framed. Hungarian-born George Molnar was a noted “architect-professor, cartoonist-commentator, master water-colourist, writer (Statues) and social analyst [who] was awarded the OBE in 1971 and the AO in 1988 for his unique contribution to Australian..... More
![Item #CL205-35 [Coquettish Nude]. Norman Lindsay, 1879–1969 Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL205-35_1.JPG?v=1655438287)
c1929. Pencil drawing, 21 x 8.1cm. Slight foxing. Framed. Provenance: Artarmon Galleries via Meg Stewart, daughter of Australian artist Margaret Coen (Aust., 1909–1993) who was mentored by Norman Lindsay during the 1930s. This drawing is most likely a study for an unpublished etching entitled Coquette, listed in Bloomfield #162, p126. The..... More
c1920s-1930s. Group of 12 pencil drawings and two linocuts pasted in hand-bound album, annotated, signed and dated “3.3.1978” by publisher Richard Griffin of Gryphon Books in ink on final page of album, 35.1 x 20.5cm (book), 11.4 x 15.5cm to 24.5 x 16cm (drawings). Soiling and foxing to some drawings. This album, titled..... More
1920. Watercolour, titled, signed and dated lower left to right, 30.4 x 44.6cm. Slight discolouration to upper left corner, repaired minor perforations to upper right and lower centre. Original frame. Born in England, Frederick James 'Fred’ Elliott “worked as a lithographic artist in the Queensland Government Printing Office from July 1896..... More
c1915. Collection of five illustrations consisting of an affixed colour process print reproducing a Leason painting, bordered by an original pen and ink drawing by Leason, each drawing is signed with one dated “1915” lower right, 18.6 x 14.5cm (approx. each). Slight foxing. Framed. These five drawings are part of the..... More
![Item #CL205-17 [Schweppes Aerated Sarsaparilla]. Lionel Lindsay, 1874–1961 Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL205-17.JPG?v=1655438241)
c1910. Ink and wash, gouache and pencil on board, captioned and signed in image lower centre, 40.6 x 32.1cm. Cracks and minor missing portion to corners. This illustration is the original artwork for an advertisement for Schweppes, which most likely appeared in the publication The Lone Hand. More
![Item #CL205-13 [Kookaburra With Lizard Prey]. J M. Cantle, 1849–1919 Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL205-13_1.JPG?v=1655438233)
1894. Watercolour, signed and dated lower right, 29 x 21.4cm. Slight foxing. Framed. John Mitchell Cantle was an architectural draughtsman and railway surveyor, but is best known as an ornithological painter, illustrator, cartoonist and postcard designer. Ref: State Library of NSW. More
![Item #CL205-12 [Portrait Of A Bearded Man]. Percy Spence, 1868–1933 Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL205-12_1.JPG?v=1655438232)
1888. Oil on canvas, signed and dated “’88” lower right, 50.7 x 38cm. Wear to edges of canvas. Balmain-born Percy Spence “grew up in Fiji and began art classes in Sydney in about 1888. Spence built his reputation on black-and-white drawings for The Bulletin and other publications. He was a founding..... More
![Item #CL203-39 The Lake [Narrabeen]. Sydney Long, 1871–1955 Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL203-39.jpg?v=1633911498)
1929. Etching and aquatint, editioned 3/60, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 26.7 x 26.3cm. Slight foxing and old tape stains to margins. Image held in the National Gallery of Australia with alternate title “Moonrise on the Lake.” “In paintings and etchings of this period, the lake is..... More
![Item #CL203-32 At An Art Show [Lambert Exhibition At Fine Art Society Gallery, Melbourne]....](/pictures/thumb/CL203-32.jpg?v=1633911474)
1921. Pen and ink with wash and pencil, signed and dated in ink and pencil upper right, publishing annotations in ink to margins and verso, titled in pencil by Leason and annotated in ink in another hand verso, 26 x 42.3cm. Slight foxing overall, missing portion, rubbing, pinholes and tears..... More