c1930s. Oil on board, signed in pencil lower right, 24.1 x 34.2cm. Minor surface dirt. William Rowell was a student of Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. His first solo exhibition was held at the Athenæum Gallery in 1920, and that year he won..... More
![Still Life With Apple Blossoms]. active Australian, s](/pictures/thumb/CL192-158.JPG?v=1524199175)
c1930s. Watercolour with pencil, 33.8 x 29.8cm. Pinholes, minor scuffing to image lower left, slight foxing and crinkles overall. Provenance: artist’s estate. Information about Betty Solomons seems to be scarce. She appears to have studied pottery at the Technical Education Department in Sydney, with her name listed in the Department’s..... More
![Winter Tree]. Percy Trompf, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL194-132.jpg?v=1543548375)
c1930s. Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 61.1 x 45.6cm. Minor scuffing to edges, slight stains upper left. Oil paintings by Trompf rarely appear in the market. Victorian-born, Percival Albert (Percy) Trompf studied at the Ballarat Technical Art School, later joining Giles & Richards in Melbourne, where he designed chocolate..... More
![Glebe Island Wheat Silos From Pyrmont, NSW]. Robert Emerson Curtis, 1898–1996 Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL198-101.jpg?v=1576814956)
c1930s. Pencil drawing, initialled lower right, 17.6 x 25.8cm. Slight foxing, uneven edges. This sketch was likely taken from the present site of Waterfront Park, Pyrmont, previously the site of the CSR Sugar Refinery. Blackwattle Bay can be seen slightly to the left. More
![Caricature Of Three Men]. George Finey, 1895–1987 Australian](/pictures/thumb/CL198-102.JPG?v=1576814956)
c1930s. Ink with crayon and gouache, signed upper right, 26.2 x 44.3cm. Slight stains. George Finey’s caricatures were captioned as “the man of the week” in Smith’s Weekly where his work was published from 1921 to 1931. “In fearless portraits he distorted people’s features so that their characteristics and temperament..... More
c1932. Pencil drawing, titled and signed in pencil below image, 20.5 x 17.9cm. Pinholes, soiling and foxing to margins, slight stains to upper and lower portions of image. This drawing was most likely a study for an etching for the 1932 publication Hobart: Eight etchings in facsimile by Charles Robinson..... More
![Dorothy Thornhill]. Douglas Dundas, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL192-30.JPG?v=1524199209)
1932. Pencil drawing, signed and dated lower right, 28.4 x 23.3cm. Slight foxing and paper loss to image centre. Image depicts the artist’s wife, painter Dorothy Thornhill. Dundas studied at the Sydney Art School with Julian Ashton. In 1927 he won the Society of Artists’ Travelling Scholarship, which enabled him..... More
1933. Watercolour with pencil, signed and dated in ink lower right, titled in pencil below image, 35.4 x 19.6cm. Minor stains to image, pinholes, tears and stains to margins. Under “Personals” in the Sydney Morning Herald on 29 June 1936 a classified reads “Mr H. Neville Barker, an artist, who..... More
![Central Station, Sydney]. Robert Emerson Curtis, Australian](/pictures/thumb/CL183-35_1.JPG?v=1486091832)
1933. Pair of pencil drawings, one with ink, each captioned, dated and initialled in pencil lower right, 23.2 x 20.3cm and 25.9 x 20.3cm (paper). Minor creases. Captions read “Central Railway Station” and “Central Station Tower, Sydney.”. More
![Arrarra [Northern Territory]. Arthur Murch, Australian](/pictures/thumb/CL192-109.JPG?v=1524199139)
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
![Hotpoint [Hardtmuth Lahm, Cartoonist]. Unk White, Australian](/pictures/thumb/CL181-149.JPG?v=1486091705)
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 in pencil lower right, signed and titled in pencil verso, 38.6 x 52.4cm. Pinholes to edges, slight mount burn. 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
![Still Life With Peaches And Flowers]. fl. Aust., s](/pictures/thumb/CL176-110.JPG?v=1492661807)
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
![Susannah]. Douglas Dundas . After Auguste Renoir, Aust., French](/pictures/thumb/CL183-47.JPG?v=1486091837)
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 canvas, signed and dated lower right, titled and signed in pencil on stretcher verso, 64.5 x 44.5cm. Minor scuffing and perforations lower right. Framed. Provenance: Dundas and Thornhill estate. Painter and teacher at the National Art School for almost forty years, Thornhill was the second wife of..... More
![Gum Trees]. Adelaide Perry, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL192-134.JPG?v=1524199157)
1936. Oil on board, signed and dated in pencil lower left, 25.5 x 35.5cm. Minor chips to edges. More
![Ships On Sydney Harbour]. Sydney Ure Smith, Australian](/pictures/thumb/CL166-173.JPG?v=1492487802)
1937. Pencil with watercolour, signed and dated in pencil lower right, 25.5 x 36.6cm. Slight old mount burn. 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
![Jack Lang]. Will Mahony, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL169-133_1.JPG?v=1492493268)
c1938. Three sets of comic strips, each consisting of four panels on two sheets of paper, ink and wash with white gouache, all signed or initialled in image, one titled in pencil “Tubsie and Big Boy”, 16.7 x 33.7cm (approx. each sheet). Slight soiling and foxing to most, creases and..... More
c1938. Six watercolour sketches with gouache and ink, laid down on two panels, titled, annotated, signed “George [G...]”, dated and captioned in ink on backing below images, 12.4 x 18.9cm. Slight foxing, scuffs and surface loss to images, foxing, tears and creases to backing. Annotation includes “Suggestion. Sesquicentenary Celebrations 1938..... More
1937-1939. Consisting of two pencil drawings on tracing paper and one oil on paper, each pencil drawing initialled, dated and titled below image, oil painting dated and signed in pencil verso, sizes range from 13.1 x 16.6cm to 18.8 x 18.7cm. Minor foxing. The Atlantic Union Oil Company came to..... More
![Portrait]. Oswald Hall, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL183-66.JPG?v=1486091844)
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
1939. Pencil drawing, signed and dated lower right, titled below image, 21 x 25cm. Slight foxing and soiling to image. More
![Bayside]. Sybil Craig, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL166-39.JPG?v=1492486417)