[Rowboats On An Embankment]
1952. Watercolour with pencil, signed and dated in pencil lower right, 35.9 x 26cm. Remnants of old backing verso. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
1952. Watercolour with pencil, signed and dated in pencil lower right, 35.9 x 26cm. Remnants of old backing verso. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1920s. Watercolour with gouache, signed lower right, 20.7 x 11.7cm. Slight soiling to margins, laid down on original backing. Born in Temora, NSW, Nancy Edith Fullarton worked in London and Sydney as an artist, writer and illustrator of children’s books, cartoonist and ballet costume designer. Ref: DAAO. More
c1940s. Crayon drawing, signed “Nan” in pencil lower left, 32.7 x 37.5cm. Missing portions, creases, tears, stains. Provenance: friend of Nan Hortin. Nan Hortin (nee Lyall) was a painter, sketcher, craft-worker and art teacher. She travelled extensively and was a member of several art groups in Sydney. More
1941. Crayon drawing, signed “Nan” and dated in pencil lower right, 51.5 x 39.7cm. Missing portions, stains and tears overall. Laid down on acid-free backing. Nan Hortin (née Lyall) was a painter, sketcher, craft-worker and art teacher. She travelled extensively and was a member of several art groups in Sydney..... More
c1953. Crayon, signed “Nan Adams” in ink verso, 54.7 x 37.3cm. Slight stains overall, tears, creases and pinholes to edges. Provenance: Close friend of the artist. Adams is Hortin’s previous name from a second marriage in 1953. More
c1953. Crayon, 35.7 x 50.4cm. Slight stains, minor tears and creases to edges. Provenance: Close friend of the artist. More
c1953. Crayon, signed “Nan” lower right, 47.6 x 35.1cm. Water stains to upper portion of image, creases, slight foxing, tears to edges. Framed. Provenance: Close friend of the artist. More
1968. Pen and ink, signed and dated lower right, 16.6 x 24.5cm. Stains and minor crinkles to image, old mount burn. More
1945. Pen and ink, signed and dated below image, 11.5 x 25cm. Repaired minor perforation to image lower left, slight stains to image lower centre and margins, torn edges not affecting image. A similar image, dated “1944” is held in the NGV. More
1920. Watercolour with pencil, signed and dated lower left, 20.9 x 27.8cm. Slight foxing overall, stains and repaired missing portions to edges of image and margins. Laid down on acid-free tissue. More
c1920s. Pen and ink, signed below image, titled and captioned in ink verso, 21.5 x 24cm. Pinholes, minor creases and soiling overall. Caption reads “Sgt Brannigan: ‘Whin oi sid to the accused – did y’ siale [see all] Rines’ alleged horses last wake [week], the mahn gave me an evvoysive..... More
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. Pencil with pen and ink, 18.3 x 16.5cm. Crinkles, creases. Framed. A certificate of authenticity accompanies this drawing. More
c1930s. Ink and wash, accompanied by authentication note signed by artist’s sister Reta Morton, 24.2 x 22.3cm. Paper loss to lower edge of image. At the age of 29 in 1937, Normand H. Baker was the youngest artist to win the Archibald Prize with his self-portrait. Although relatively unknown at..... More
c1930s. Pencil drawing, accompanied by authentication note signed by artist’s sister Reta Morton, 24 x 21.2cm. Slight foxing, discolouration to edges. More
c1940s. Watercolour with crayons, signed in ink lower right, 26.3 x 38.5cm. Born in Perth, Nutter Buzacott worked with James Flett and Mervyn Wallis at Patons Advertising Company in Melbourne during the 1930s. Prior to this Buzacott had experimented with linocuts, lithographs and etchings. In 1936 he studied at Colarossi’s..... More
c1920s. Watercolour, signed in image lower left, 50.8 x 37.3cm. Slight paper remnants to edges of image. 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
c1940s. Pencil sketch, signed lower right, annotated “Melbourne” in ink below image, 15.5 x 9cm. Stains and foxing overall, tears and creases to edges. Melbourne painter and printmaker Oswald Hall was the son of L. Bernard Hall, a prominent artist. Oswald was influenced by Christian Waller, who shared his interest..... More
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
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
c1920s. Pen and ink, titled upper right, captioned in image, 13.9 x 31.8cm. Minor soiling, paper loss. Captions include “Leason Exploration Party” and “The Farthest Out Hotel.”. More
1909. Watercolour with white highlight, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 24.2cm. Minor foxing to left edge. Framed. Most likely intended to be included as an illustration for Frank Fox’s book Australia, published in 1910. Ref: ADB. More
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