1923. Pair of linocuts, each initialled in block lower left; one editioned 24/50 and the other 24/35, both titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 27.2 x 21.9cm (approx. each). Slight foxing and stains, minor crinkles, repaired tears to margins. The Ring is held in the National Gallery of..... More
c1929. Hand-coloured woodcut, signed in pencil in lower margin, 28 x 20.4cm. Framed. This woodcut originally came in a folder which accompanied the book Margaret Preston’s Recent Paintings, 1929, edited by S. Ure Smith and L. Gellert. This book was published in an edition of 250, with half of the edition..... More
1934. Colour linocut, titled and monogrammed in block lower centre, editioned 2/14, titled, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 27.8 x 35cm. Old stains and slight foxing to margins. An impression of this image, as well as other work, is held in the National Gallery of Australia. Born..... More
c1980. Etching, editioned 86/100, titled and signed in pencil with printer’s blind stamp “WHP” in lower margin, 29.6 x 30.1cm. Minor soiling to margins. This image was illustrated in the first edition of the book by Charles Blackman with text by Nadine Amadio, Charles Blackman, The Lost Domains, 1980. It shows..... More
1989. Etching, editioned 39/50, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 39.2 x 47.5cm. Slight foxing. Framed. This image is held in National Gallery of Australia with a comment on Charles Blackman’s printmaking background: “Born in Sydney on 8 December 1928, where he studied drawing, Charles Blackman was self-taught as..... More
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1998. Etching with aquatint, editioned 173/175, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin, 14.4 x 22.2cm. Framed. Image held in Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland. This etching is from Olsen’s series of six etchings titled New York nowhere: meditations and celebrations, Neurology Ward, the New York Hospital, 1998. The series illustrates..... More
2004. Aquatint with etching, annotated “a/p” [artist’s proof] and signed in pencil in lower margin, 21.3 x 25.6cm. Image held in the National Gallery of Australia. Printed by Michael Kempson of Cicada Press in an edition of 50, this image was commissioned by Beagle Press for the deluxe limited edition..... More
c1932. Woodcut, initialled in block lower right, title and artist in letterpress in lower margin, other text verso, 15.1 x 10.3cm. Perforations to left margin. This woodblock was published in the magazine Manuscripts: the Book Nook Miscellany, no. 2, June 1932 in an edition of 750. No other edition of..... More