[Still Life With Peaches And Flowers]
1935. Watercolour, signed and dated lower right, 36.1 x 33.3cm. Insect damage lower right, slight foxing, laid down on original backing. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
1935. Watercolour, signed and dated lower right, 36.1 x 33.3cm. Insect damage lower right, slight foxing, laid down on original backing. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 41.6 x 37cm. Pinholes to edges, slight foxing. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 34.6 x 32.2cm. Pinholes to edges. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour with pencil, 33.8 x 29.8cm. Pinholes, minor scuffing to image lower left, slight foxing and crinkles overall. Provenance: artist’s estate. Information about Betty Solomons seems to be scarce. She appears to have studied pottery at the Technical Education Department in Sydney, with her name listed in the Department’s..... More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 28 x 34.6cm. Pinholes to edges. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 41.5 x 36cm. Pinholes to edges, minor foxing. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
1910. Ink drawing on card, signed lower left, titled, dated “25/4/10” and annotated with poem in ink and pencil, with letterpress publishing receipt attached verso, 28.2 x 23cm. Minor soiling, pinholes to margins. Annotations include Young’s address at “Grange Road, Toorak, Victoria.” The handwritten poem reads “The autumn days for..... More
c1984. Lithograph, editioned 9/20, titled and signed in pencil with “Victorian Print Workshop” blind stamp in lower margin, 40.8 x 57cm. Slight foxing. From the series Corner of a Room: Six lithographs by Brian Dunlop. Held in NGA. This image was most likely drawn in Dunlop’s house when he was..... More
c1960s. Four tempera and gouache paintings, each captioned in ink on label attached to frame below image, annotated, titled, signed “Byram Mansell FRSA (Lon.), ARAS” and annotated with studio address “Studio 37, Marian St, Killara, NSW 2071” in ink on label attached to frame verso, 62.3 x 120.5cm. Slight soiling..... More
1923. Ink and wash with gouache highlights, signed upper left, publishing annotations including date in crayon verso, 26 x 47cm. Minor perforations and missing portions to edges, repaired tears to lower left corner. Annotations include “Xmas, p28. Published Xmas ’23.”. More
c1950. Watercolour, signed upper left, titled in pencil on frame verso with original exhibition label, 26.9 x 21.1cm. Minor foxing. Original mount and frame. Label includes “Anthony Hordern & Sons Ltd” and catalogue no. “52.” The younger son of watercolourist J.J. Hilder and brother of Bim Hilder, Captain Brett Hilder..... More
c1930s. Pencil drawing, titled and signed in pencil on backing below image, 7.4 x 14cm. Minor surface loss and foxing to image, tipped to original backing. Carl Newland Werntz was an American painter, fine arts photographer, illustrator, cartoonist and educator who founded the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Werntz was..... More
1893. Ink and wash with white highlight, captioned left and right, signed and dated lower left, publishing annotations in pencil in various hands with two stamps verso, 44.1 x 29.7cm. Foxing, slight stains, soiling overall. Stamps read “Horace Cox, Brear’s Buildings, E. C. The Queen” and “C. Robertson & Co..... More
c1910. Crayon drawing, signed and captioned in ink below image, 27 x 17.2cm. Slight tears to right edge, creases and slight foxing. Caption reads “Slimm: ‘Yes, I’m an artist now.’ Stoutt: ‘Oh! One of these bally chaps who paint pictures & study from the leud, eh?’” A good friend of..... More
1927. Pencil drawing, titled, signed and dated lower left to right, 22.6 x 33.8cm. Paper remnants to left edge, slight surface loss lower centre. An important and influential early Australian photographer, Cecil Bostock was also a highly regarded illustrator, bookbinder and carpenter. Ref: Photo-web. More
1970. Pencil drawing, titled and signed lower right, 20.2 x 25.5cm. Old tape remnants to upper edge, minor surface loss and creases to corners. Illustrated in Emanuel, Historic Sydney: drawings and notes, 1970, p65, with the comment “Bare Island stands as one of the rare examples of fortress architecture in..... More
c1960s. Pencil drawing, titled and signed lower left to right, 17.5 x 33.9cm. Cracks and paper loss to upper edge not affecting image, paper loss from old tape verso. More
c1970. Pen and ink, titled and signed lower right, 39 x 42.3cm. Slight stains and crinkles. Illustrated in Emanuel, Historic Sydney: Drawings and notes, 1970, p70 with the caption “Stanley Place, Woolloomooloo.”. More
c1960. Watercolour with gouache and ink, signed in ink lower right, 23.5 x 40cm. Slight stains and foxing to edges not affecting image, old mount burn. Depicts terraces in Phillips Street, Alexandria, which were built in 1883 and are still standing. A lithograph with a similar image was also created..... More
c1973. Two ink drawings, each titled and signed in pencil below image, one dated “1973”, 36 x 26cm and 36 x 28.9cm. Slight stains and creases to paper not affecting image. Provenance: Hogarth Galleries. Charis Schwarz, an Australian artist and former nurse, “met the dashing, Swiss-born artist, George, on a...... More
1967. Gouache with stencil and transfer lettering, signed in ink and transfer lettering lower left and right, 39.7 x 36.3cm. Minor surface cracking, slight foxing overall, laid down on board. Text includes “High Street, Kensington [NSW]. 663 5177. April 7.” The Old Tote Theatre Company was created by the National..... More
c1900. Crayon and pencil drawing, 20 x 25cm (paper). Minor soiling, old mount burn, laid down on old backing. There are many legends connecting the salamander to fire, possibly due to the tendency of salamanders to live inside rotting logs. When placed into a fire, the salamander would attempt to..... More
c1900. Crayon drawing, 21 x 26.1cm (paper). Slight soiling including fingerprint lower right, repaired minor tear upper left, laid down on old backing. A possible study for commedia dell’arte, a theatrical art form based on traditional characters wearing masks in improvised comic scenarios. It began in Italy in the 16th..... More
c1900–1920s. Group of 23 pictures consisting of one watercolour and 22 oil painting studies, including four on board, two on stretchers, one signed “Meynell Withers” lower left, three captioned in ink (one illegible) and one annotated “Mary” in pencil verso, sizes range from 14.2 x 22cm to 23.2 x 38cm..... More