1939. Two pencil drawings, one captioned “board rider”, both initialled and dated lower right, 22.5 x 11.5cm and 16 x 24cm. Slight foxing. More

1940. Watercolour, charcoal and pencil with accompanying pencil study which includes marginalia lower left, the painting is signed and dated in pencil lower left and annotated in ink verso, 33.8 x 42cm (paper) and 33.9 x 42.2cm. Each with minor stains and foxing, study with minor perforation upper left. The..... More

c1940s. Watercolour with pencil on folded paper, annotations concerning colours in margins, titled overleaf, 24.9 x 19.5cm. Pinholes and slight stains to margins. Paolo and Francesca da Rimini were adulterous lovers who were portrayed in Dante Aligheri’s The Divine Comedy. In the poem, they are condemned to the second circle..... More

c1940s. Watercolour with ink and crayon, 27 x 18.7cm. More

c1940s. Pair of cover illustrations in pen and ink with watercolour, captioned in pencil in lower margin, 32.1 x 37.2cm (approx. each). Soiling, slight creases and foxing overall, pinholes to margins. Nils Josef (Joe) Jonsson was an Australian cartoonist born in Halmstad, Sweden. At age 18 he went to sea..... More

c1938-1940. Ink and wash with crayon and white gouache, signed lower right, titled in pencil in lower margin, publishing annotation in right margin, 25.3 x 30.3cm. Slight soiling overall. Captions read “Daily News. For an Australian New Deal.”. More

c1940s. Pencil study, signed in ink lower right, 27.1 x 17.7cm. Stains and creases to upper portion of image and margins, slight paper loss to edges of margins. More

1940. Ink and wash, signed lower left, captioned in image upper centre and in pencil in lower margin, publishing stamp with date verso, 34.2 x 41.7cm. Slight soiling, missing portions to margins. Caption in image reads “During his war cabinet visit to Brisbane, Mr Hughes will be quartered in the..... More

1940. Pen and ink with gouache, signed [Will Mahony (Aust., 1905-1989)] in gouache and titled in pencil with publishing annotations on image and margins, publishing stamp with date verso, 34.2 x 41.6cm. Missing portions and slight soiling to margins. Caption in image reads “During his war cabinet visit to Brisbane..... 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

c1940s. Pencil drawing, signed lower right, 32 x 21.5cm. Slight stains, foxing and minor creases overall. More

c1940. Transfer drawing, titled and captioned lower left, 19.7 x 25.6cm. Old folds, slight foxing, trimmed left edge and corners. Caption reads “Period 1880. [Centenary] 1840 to 1940.” Shows the Garden Palace, purpose-built for the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879. This drawing is a study for a mural for Farmer..... More

c1940s. Pencil drawing, titled and signed lower centre and right, 54 x 36.8cm. Slight scuffing, pinholes to image upper left. A pencil drawing of three figures, a dragon and a castle appears verso. The face of one of the figures resembles Rosaleen Norton. Uncommon large drawing by Norton of her..... More