1933. Sanguine drawing, titled, signed and dated lower right, 36.7 x 56.7cm (paper). Pinholes, repaired tears, creases and missing portions, slight stains to edges. Laid down on acid-free tissue. In 1933, Arthur Murch accompanied a professor of physiology, H. Whitridge Davies, on a scientific expedition to Central Australia as a...... More

c1934. Ink and wash with white gouache, overlay to face of image, captioned lower left, signed and various annotations outside image, 29.2 x 8.2cm. Soiling, small perforations to image lower right. Annotations read “H. Lahm (Hotpoint), 1934” and “Study of an artist.” Ref: DAAO. More

1934. Watercolour, signed and dated lower left, 33 x 39.8cm. Pinholes to edges. Provenance: artist’s estate. More

1934. Pen and ink, signed and dated in ink lower right, signed and captioned in pencil in upper and lower margins, “McCulloch” estate and date stamp “14 Dec. 1934” verso, 30.3 x 44.7cm. Minor creases, foxing, soiling. Text in cartoon reads “On sale here. ‘Evensong.’ The film version of this..... 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

c1890s & 1935. Plaster relief portrait with hand-painted border, and watercolour with pencil, plaster relief titled “Sir Henry Parkes” in ink verso, watercolour initialled “E.H.B.” and dated “1935” in pencil lower right with caption in ink below image, 23cm (plaster diameter) and 15.8 x 11.3cm (watercolour). Slight stains and foxing..... More

c1936. Oil on canvas, signed in pencil on stretcher verso, 59.6 x 49.7cm. Slight scuffing and paint loss. Framed. Provenance: Dundas and Thornhill estate. The image seems to be have been inspired by one of the figures in Renoir’s 1917 painting depicting two bathers. Ref: Athenaeum (USA). Renoir’s model may..... More

1936. Oil on board, signed and dated in pencil lower left, 25.5 x 35.5cm. Minor chips to edges. More

c1937. Two pencil drawings, both initialled, one captioned and dated “1937?” lower right, annotated and initialled verso, 25.1 x 20.2cm and 12 x 24.6cm. Slight stains, foxing and creases. Caption and annotations include “On Bogan Gate land” and “Sowing wheat. Sketched on Paddy’s land, Bogan Gate.” Bogan Gate is a...... More

1938. Ink drawing, signed and dated in pencil below image, 45 x 27cm. Framed. Illustrated in Varichon #1598, p520. Albert Gleizes was an “important French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris.” He also influenced several international artists who came to Paris..... More

c1939. Oil on textured paper, signed lower right, cancelled correspondence in ink verso, 16 x 11.2cm. Paper loss to image centre right, crease lower left, slight foxing, minor tears and missing portions to upper edge. Melbourne painter and printmaker Oswald Hall was the son of L. Bernard Hall, a prominent..... More

c1939. Watercolour with pencil, signed in ink lower right, titled in ink verso, 26.1 x 36.4cm. Stains to upper portion of image. More