c1920s-1930s. Group of 12 pencil drawings and two linocuts pasted in hand-bound album, annotated, signed and dated “3.3.1978” by publisher Richard Griffin of Gryphon Books in ink on final page of album, 35.1 x 20.5cm (book), 11.4 x 15.5cm to 24.5 x 16cm (drawings). Soiling and foxing to some drawings. This album, titled..... 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
![Item #CL192-30 [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
![Item #CL183-35 [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
![Item #CL192-109 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
![Item #CL181-149 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
![Item #CL176-110 [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
c1890s & 1935. Plaster relief portrait with hand-painted border, and watercolour with pencil, plaster relief titled “Sir Henry Parkes” in ink verso, watercolour initialled “E.H.B.” and dated “1935” in pencil lower right with caption in ink below image, 23cm (plaster diameter) and 15.8 x 11.3cm (watercolour). Slight stains and foxing..... More
![Item #CL183-47 [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
![Item #CL192-134 [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
![Item #CL166-173 [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
![Item #CL169-133 [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
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
![Item #CL183-66 [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
![Item #CL176-111 [South Coast Landscape, NSW]. fl. Aust., s](/pictures/thumb/CL176-111.JPG?v=1492661808)
1939. Watercolour, signed and dated lower right, 34 x 41.4cm. Minor foxing, cockling, pinholes to edges. Provenance: artist’s estate. 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
c1939. Ink and wash with white highlight, signed “Chatham” in image lower left, captioned “J. Saywell’s Riley Imp” erroneously in panel below image, 21 x 18.1cm. Minor cockling. Framed. “In 1939 [racing car driver] Jack Saywell, then in his late 20s, imported a 1936 3-litre Monoposto Alfa Romeo. It was..... More
![Item #CL166-39 [Bayside]. Sybil Craig, Aust](/pictures/thumb/CL166-39.JPG?v=1492486417)
