c1950s. Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 29.3 x 36.7cm. Crazing and slight surface loss. Framed. Bette Hays nee Passmore studied at East Sydney Technical College under Frank Norton, Douglas Dundas and Roland Wakelin. She lived in Papua New Guinea from 1950 to 1959 and then taught at Townsville Grammar..... More

c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 30 x 32cm. Pinholes to edges. 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 published examination results in 1923. From 1925 she was known..... More

c1950. Watercolour, signed upper left, titled in pencil on frame verso with original exhibition label, 26.9 x 21.1cm. Minor foxing. Original mount and frame. Label includes “Anthony Hordern & Sons Ltd” and catalogue no. “52.” The younger son of watercolourist J.J. Hilder and brother of Bim Hilder, Captain Brett Hilder..... More

1893. Ink and wash with white highlight, captioned left and right, signed and dated lower left, publishing annotations in pencil in various hands with two stamps verso, 44.1 x 29.7cm. Foxing, slight stains, soiling overall. Stamps read “Horace Cox, Brear’s Buildings, E. C. The Queen” and “C. Robertson & Co..... More

c1900. Crayon drawing, 21 x 26.1cm (paper). Slight soiling including fingerprint lower right, repaired minor tear upper left, laid down on old backing. A possible study for commedia dell’arte, a theatrical art form based on traditional characters wearing masks in improvised comic scenarios. It began in Italy in the 16th..... More

1952. Pen and ink with crayon and watercolour, titled, signed and dated in ink lower right, 32.6 x 47.2cm. Framed. Much of Donald Friend’s life and career was spent outside Australia, in places as “diverse as Nigeria (late 1930s, where he served as financial advisor to the Ogoga of Ikerre)..... More

1944. Watercolour with pencil, signed and dated upper centre, annotated in unknown hand in pencil verso, 36.2 x 54.9cm. Reinforced corners, minor tears to right and lower edges, slight foxing and creases. Annotation reads “A one-way in KwathLoothLeeth Boro. (To amuse boys “dotty” on engineering. Vide. E. Blampied).” Author Marguerite..... More

1948. Pair of oils on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 59.7 x 50.3cm to 75.5 x 60.2cm. Slight soiling to images. Framed. Lancashire-born artist Frieda Scott Fladgate spent eighteen months in Malaya “walking the countryside and backstreets of Singapore and then painted from memory.” Together with Irish artist Nuala..... More

1910. Pen and ink with white gouache illustration, captioned below image, original publishing label dated “Oct. 8, 1910” with annotations in ink affixed verso, 23 x 20.2cm. Slight soiling and foxing, discolouration to edges. Annotations include “Captain Black” and “Chums.” This uncommon original illustration appeared in Chapter 13 of the..... More

1932. Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 58.5 x 74.2cm. Minor crazing, some soiling and scuffing to surface. Framed. More

c1930s. Watercolour, signed in ink lower right, captioned by Nevill-Smith and annotated in another hand in pencil verso, 35.4 x 49.1cm. Pinholes, foxing. Annotation reads “Miss Lucy Fyers, Lake Road, Te Kawhata, New Zealand.”. More

c1930s. Watercolour, signed lower left, partially illegible caption in pencil verso, 39 x 56.7cm. Pinholes. More