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c1930s. Ink and wash with crayon and white gouache, signed lower right, titled in pencil in lower margin, 24.8 x 33.5cm. Slight soiling and foxing overall. Caption reads “Canberra Civil Service bus stop.”. More
c1930s. Ink and wash with crayon and white gouache, signed lower right, titled in pencil in lower margin, 24.8 x 33.5cm. Slight soiling and foxing overall. Caption reads “Canberra Civil Service bus stop.”. More
c1930s. Pastel, signed lower right, 29.1 x 34cm. Slight tear and old creases to upper and left edges of image. More
c1930s. Pencil sketch, initialled lower right, 26 x 15.6cm. Minor crinkles, soiling and foxing overall, pinholes to corners. Provenance: Curtis estate. More
c1930s. Pencil sketch, initialled lower right, 23 x 20.3cm. Crinkles, soiling and foxing overall. Provenance: Curtis estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour, signed lower right, 20.1 x 37.3cm. Slight foxing, stains to margins, old mount burn. More
c1920s-1930s. Ink and wash, signed lower right, publishing annotations in pencil to upper margin, 18.2 x 5.5cm. Foxing and soiling overall, repaired minor paper loss. Laid down on acid-free backing. Walter Albert Lindrum, OBE (1898-1960) was an Australian professional player of English billiards who held the World Professional Billiards Championship..... More
c1930. Pen and ink, signed “K.C. Dow” lower right, 26.7 x 17.8cm. Repaired tears to edges of image and missing portions to margins. Laid down on original backing. Animals include a kangaroo, koala, kookaburra and lyre bird. More
c1930. Pen and ink with gouache, signed “Phil McLachlan” and captioned upper left and lower centre, 23.2 x 20.7cm. Slight foxing, discolouration and minor surface loss to margins. Phyllis Laishley McLachlan, on leaving school at the age of 16, studied with Thea Proctor, and at the Julian Ashton School. She..... More
c1930s. Ink and wash, accompanied by authentication note signed by artist’s sister Reta Morton, 24.2 x 22.3cm. Paper loss to lower edge of image. At the age of 29 in 1937, Normand H. Baker was the youngest artist to win the Archibald Prize with his self-portrait. Although relatively unknown at..... More
c1930s. Pencil drawing, accompanied by authentication note signed by artist’s sister Reta Morton, 24 x 21.2cm. Slight foxing, discolouration to edges. More
1930. Watercolour with gouache, signed and dated in pencil upper right, 21.5 x 61.5cm. Foxing, repaired tear to upper right corner. Framed. More
1930. Pair of watercolours with pencil: a) initialled and dated “1930?” in pencil in lower margin, annotated “New York” in pencil verso, 19.5 x 8.6cm; and (b) annotated “N.Y.” in pencil in lower margin, annotated “Wiggins model” in pencil verso, 19.2 x 12.8cm. Each titled and dated on accompanying certificate..... More
c1930s. Pair of pen and ink drawings, both signed and dated with one titled lower right, 15.5 x 16.3cm and 15.7 x 15.3cm. Slight creases. Framed. More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, “Schoellers Parole” paper blind stamp upper left, 28.9 x 39.7cm. Insect damage lower right portion, minor missing portions to edges. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 32.8 x 39.1cm. Slight foxing, pinholes to edges. Provenance: artist’s estate. 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
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 28 x 34.6cm. Pinholes to edges. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 40.6 x 33.5cm. Pinholes to edges, slight foxing. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 32.8 x 27.9cm. Pinholes to edges. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 34.6 x 32.2cm. Pinholes to edges. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 41.6 x 37cm. Pinholes to edges, slight foxing. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Watercolour, unsigned, 41.5 x 36cm. Pinholes to edges, minor foxing. Provenance: artist’s estate. More
c1930s. Gouache, 20.2 x 25.4cm. British-born Martin Frank Stainforth is best known for portraits of thoroughbred racehorses he painted in England, Australia and the United States. Ref: Wiki; ADB. More
c1910-c1930s. (1) [Mark Foy’s Building, Sydney], c1910. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, 26.2 x 31cm. Slight silvering, minor foxing, crazing. Framed. Mark Foy’s Department Store, known as “The Piazza”, opened in 1909 on the block bounded by Liverpool, Elizabeth and Castlereagh Streets, Sydney. Since 1985 the building has operated as The..... More
c1930s. Charcoal drawing, artist’s signature stamped lower right, annotated “Bacon” and “5” in pencil and ink in unknown hand verso, 22.5 x 10cm. Foxing to image centre and edges, minor stain to image upper centre, slight discolouration to edges of paper. A faint abstract sketch appears verso. Provenance: Philip Bacon Galleries..... More