John [?] Beck As “Rigoletto”
1980. Pencil drawing, signed, dated and titled lower left and right, 41.2 x 42.3cm. Slight soiling overall. More
1980. Pencil drawing, signed, dated and titled lower left and right, 41.2 x 42.3cm. Slight soiling overall. More
c1940. Pen and ink with white gouache, 23 x 29.3cm. Soiling, foxing, slight surface loss, old glue stains. Captions include “Moroney. Miner’s family.” Provenance: Campbell estate. Timothy Moroney was an office bearer of the Australian Railway Union. Frank Campbell was an illustrator for The Worker, a newspaper affiliated with the..... More
1950. Pen and ink with coloured pencil, captioned, dated and signed in ink, 26 x 23cm. Pinholes, minor foxing, ink stains to centre of image and left edge. Caption includes “Resolutions for 1951. Unite for Peace & Prosperity.”. More
1944. Pen and ink with white gouache, signed in ink lower right, publishing annotation “2 col. [The] Worker” and titled in pencil in lower margin, annotated and dated “3/4/44” in ink verso, 33.2 x 25cm. Foxing, creases, tears and pinholes to edges. Captions in image read “Where do I come..... More
c1944. Pen and ink with white gouache, signed in ink lower right, publishing annotation “3. col.” in pencil lower centre, 22.9 x 30cm. Creases, cracking, old pinholes, slight foxing, soiling. Provenance: Campbell estate. Francis (Frank) Herbert Campbell was the husband of artist Margaret Campbell. More
c1958-1961. Ink with pencil, signed in ink and faded pencil lower right with artist’s stamp verso, 25 x 33.4cm. Foxing, tears to edges, old folds, faded pencil inscriptions. Stamp reads “Drawn by Frank Campbell, artist and teacher, 8 Mackenzie St, North Sydney.” Provenance: Campbell estate. Image shows Bob Heffron, former..... More
c1950s. Pen and ink with coloured pencil and gouache, signed in image lower centre, publishing annotations in pencil in lower margin, 29.4 x 23.3cm. Pinholes, paper remnants to image upper right, minor foxing overall, creases. Provenance: Campbell estate. Francis (Frank) Herbert Campbell was the husband of artist Margaret Campbell. More
c1920s. Pen and ink with white gouache, signed lower right, annotated and titled in pencil below image, 34.8 x 28.2cm. Slight foxing overall, old fold, creases and tears to edges, slip of paper attached to caption. Captions read “Australia, the land of golden opportunities, welcomes all, has work for all..... More
1930. Pair of watercolours with pencil: a) initialled and dated “1930?” in pencil in lower margin, annotated “New York” in pencil verso, 19.5 x 8.6cm; and (b) annotated “N.Y.” in pencil in lower margin, annotated “Wiggins model” in pencil verso, 19.2 x 12.8cm. Each titled and dated on accompanying certificate..... More
c1930s. Pair of pen and ink drawings, both signed and dated with one titled lower right, 15.5 x 16.3cm and 15.7 x 15.3cm. Slight creases. Framed. More
1939. Pencil sketch, titled, dated (twice), signed and captioned above and below image, 19.8 x 24.3cm. Creases, slight foxing. Framed. Caption reads “We don’t know anything about art! But! We do know what people like!” Provenance: Bloomfield Galleries. Most likely a study for Hinder’s 1939 lithograph titled “Archibald Prize [AGNSW].”..... More
1944. Pen and ink, signed and dated in pencil lower right, 22.5 x 17.4cm. Old mount burn, slight foxing, tears to lower left corner. More
1939. Pencil drawing, signed and dated lower right, titled below image, 21 x 25cm. Slight foxing and soiling to image. More
1941. Pair of pencil drawings with some added coloured pencil, each captioned, dated “30/3/41” and “10/4/41”, one annotated concerning colours, 22.8 x 27.6cm (each). Minor stains overall. These drawings are from a sketch book. Captions include “New [sic] Ams.[terdam] , Ile de France” and “Detail, HMAS Bungaree, Melbourne.”. More
1896. Watercolour on card, monogrammed in watercolour, dated and titled in faint pencil below image, 40.5 x 24.5cm. Pinholes, creases and slight foxing. Frank Prout Mahony was the first Australian-born artist whose work was purchased by the Art Gallery of NSW. He was a well-known illustrator during the latter part..... More
1903. Pencil drawing, dated “Oct. 15 ‘03” in pencil lower right, posthumous studio stamp lower right, 27.8 x 19.6cm. Slight soiling overall. Mahony drew this work while he was in London at the Langham Sketching Club (later the London Sketch Club). He was persuaded by artist Phil May to join..... More
c1890s. Oil on board, posthumous artist’s stamp on board and frame verso, 49 x 36.5cm. Minor paint loss and indentations to upper portions of image, minor crazing and foxing overall. Framed. An unfinished painting of a horse carcass appears verso. The Art Gallery of NSW began acquiring paintings and drawings..... More
c1890s. Oil on card, posthumous studio stamp verso, 21.6 x 46.2cm. Slight scuffing. Provenance: Frank P. Mahony estate. Mahony’s work is well represented in the AGNSW. Australian-born Federation-era painter, illustrator and Bulletin cartoonist Frank Mahony is best known for images of the bush. Early in his career in Australia, before..... More
1966. Etching, editioned 1/10 and signed in pencil in lower margin, 20.5 x 12.6cm. Slight soiling to right margin. Illustrated in Mollison, Fred Williams: Etchings, 1968, plate 158. Prior to 1967, Williams focused more on figurative imagery, before concentrating on Australian landscapes in his etchings. 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
c1890s. Group of four charcoal and pencil drawings, all titled and signed in image upper and lower left, two numbered “12” on old collection sticker lower right, sizes range from 33.8 x 12cm to 44 x 14.2cm. All with foxing overall, slight tears and missing portions to edges. (1) “Princess”..... More
1945. Watercolour, titled, dated “10.11.45” and signed lower left to right, 26.7 x 36.7cm. Slight tears to right edge. More
1904. Pen and ink, captioned in image, signed and dated “Aug. ‘04” lower left, 25 x 21cm. Pinholes, slight foxing, old mount burn. Captions include “Labor”; “Fitzroy Dock tender”; “Extinction”; and “Jack Want’s fruit knife.” Towards the end of 1903, “poor economic conditions and drought” forced Sir John See’s NSW..... More
1880. Oil on board, signed lower right, titled, dated and signed in ink verso, 24 x 15.5cm. Framed. European-trained George Alphonse Collingridge de Tourcey was a prominent wood engraver, painter, teacher and historian. Along with his brother, Arthur, he co-founded the Royal Art Society of NSW in 1880, and the..... More
c1930s. Seven crayon drawings, each signed upper or lower right, one titled “Mr Farr-A-Loft” in pencil below image, sizes range from 26.7 x 20cm to 28.3 x 22.8cm. Each with stains and missing portions to edges not affecting image, some with minor tears in image, slight soiling overall. These drawings..... More