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. Pencil sketch, signed lower right, annotated “Melbourne” in ink below image, 15.5 x 9cm. Stains and foxing overall, tears and creases to edges. Melbourne painter and printmaker Oswald Hall was the son of L. Bernard Hall, a prominent artist. Oswald was influenced by Christian Waller, who shared his interest..... More

c1940s. Pencil sketch, signed lower centre, 24.5 x 25cm. Slight foxing, stains, creases. Sydney-born artist Rachel Mary Roxburgh was also an educator, conservationist, and architectural heritage campaigner. She studied at East Sydney Technical College and Adelaide Perry School. She exhibited with the Contemporary Group and the Society of Artists, and..... More

1940. Pen and ink, initialled and dated in pencil lower left, 18 x 23cm. Slight foxing and creases. The Lee-Enfield is a bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle that served as the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th..... 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

c1942. Double-sided drawing with pencil, ink and crayon, 15.6 x 9.2cm. Minor perforations. Framed. Born in Annandale, NSW, painter Eric Wilson studied under Henry Moore, after winning a travelling art scholarship in 1937. Wilson returned to Australia after travelling through Europe and began creating works in the cubist style. In..... More