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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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