Catalogue
Postcard, German New Guinea, coin card depicting the complete set of German New Guinea coins from one pfennig to twenty marks. Extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Blackman, Charles, coloured pencil etching, c1950s, 'Couple in bed', signed, framed, (30cm x 20cm), (47cm x 35cm framed). Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $700
SOLD $480
Blackman, Charles, pencil etching, 1958, 'Lady with book', signed, framed, (16cm x 12cm), (50cm x 28cm framed). Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $700
SOLD $800
Boyd, Arthur, (1920-1999), etching, 'Mother with child', signed, #17/45, framed, (55cm x 43.5cm), (92cm x 72.5cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $600
Boyd, David, oil on board, 'Apple and pear', 1992, signed, unframed, (30cm x 24cm). Very fine.
Estimate $1,200
SOLD $3,800
Boyd, David, oil on board, 'Gathering apples in the orchard of innocence', 1995, signed, framed, (29cm x 23.5cm), (47.5cm x 41cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $7,000
Boyd, David, oil on board, 'The spectre of Nationalism', 1968, signed, framed, (41cm x 30cm), (51cm x 38.5cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $11,300
Boyd, David, oil on board, 'Blue Roses', c.2002, signed, unframed, (61cm x 46cm). Very fine.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $9,400
Boyd, David, oil on canvas, 'Clown throwing down gold', 1992, signed, framed, (44.5cm x 34cm), (57cm x 47cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $2,400
SOLD $7,500
Boyd, David, oil on canvas, 'Clown sleeping under his father's tree with seagull approaching', 1992, signed, framed, (44cm x 34cm), (65cm x 55cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $2,400
SOLD $10,000
Boyd, David, acrylic on board, 'Recollection of a flowering pear and wattle', 1991, signed, framed, (50cm x 39cm), (69cm x 58cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $12,000
Boyd, David, oil on canvas, 'A golden plumed Wombat emerging from a burning bush', 1995, signed, framed, (60cm x 49cm), (77.5cm x 68cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $8,500
Boyd, David, oil on board, 'Europa fleeing from a golden plumed Wombat', 1996, signed, framed, (54.5cm x 54.5cm), (70cm x 71cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $13,000
Salvador Dali, original etching, enhanced with watercolour, The bestiary of the Dalinised Fountain, The horse and the wolf, circa 1974, signed in pencil, artist proof before the edition of 250, (96cm x 81cm), framed. Extremely fine and rare as an artist proof.
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $1,550
Drysdale, Russell, (1912-1981), pencil sketch triptych, study for 'Children in a bath', 1950, signed, framed, (32cm x 15cm), (56.5 x 38cm). Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $500
SOLD $800
Hansen, Ian, (1948 -), oil on canvas, 'Marco Polo", c1990, (100cm x 75cm), signed. Very fine.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $2,000
Hart, Pro, (1928-2006), oil on canvas, 'Flowers', signed, framed, (22cm x 17cm), (45cm x 41cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $1,600
Hart, Pro, (1928-2006), oil on canvas, 'Flowers', signed, framed, (13cm x 10.5cm), (29.5cm x 27cm framed). Very fine, glass cracked.
Estimate $150
SOLD $1,200
Hart, Pro, (1928-2006), oil on canvas, 'Four Ants', no.337, signed, framed, (14cm x 13cm), (24cm x 23cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $1,000
Hart, Pro, (1928-2006), oil on canvas, 'Flowers', signed, framed, (13.5cm x 13.5cm), (27cm x 27cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $1,200
Hart, Pro, (1928-2006), cast sterling silver ingot, 'Bullants', signed, framed, (6cm x 4.5cm), (28cm x 27.5cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $450
Hart, Pro, (1928-2006), cast sterling silver ingot, 'Bullants', signed, framed, (10cm x 5.5cm), (41cm x 37.5cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $550
Hart, Pro, (1928-2006), coloured etching print, 'Monday Morning Miner', 1982, signed, framed, (15cm x 15cm), (39cm x 39cm framed). Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $260
Platt, Austin, (1912-2003), etching, "Scotch College Perth", c1936, "Artist Proof B", signed, framed, (45cm x 36cm); another of Scotch College Perth, signed, (45cm x 36cm); J.H.Wiley, signed etching, "Bakehouse Close Edinburgh", c1920, (42cm x 26.5cm), framed; Green, C.H., landscape scene, "Darlington", oil on card, 20th century, (48cm x 42cm), framed and signed; Kaufmann, J.C., pencil etching of a white blaze horse, 20th century, framed and signed, (39cm x 32cm); Aboriginal paperbark art, early 20th century, depicting a bush scene, "Bungaree - My Country", signed Odes, with original description to the back, (34cm x 24cm). Very fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Australia, an assortment of Australia publications including, "The YMCA in Australia"; "Spinifex Walkabout"; "The Australia Club 1838-1988, The First 150 years"; "Proud Story Official History of the Australian Comforts Fund", by C.Bodham-Jackson, Sydney, 1949, 336pp, rare, and more. Fine. (15)
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
Melbourne Invitation Committee, deluxe invitation book, to the International Olympic Committee, extending an invitation to celebrate the XVI Olympiad in Melbourne, in 1956, suede bound and bearing in enamel the Coat of Arms of the City of Melbourne on the cover, I-XIV plus 63 pages of black and white photos showcasing Melbourne's sport, culture and wildlife, together with architects' impressions of proposed venues, the arena, swimming pool and stadium, printed in Melbourne, enamelled crest on front cover by Stokes & Sons Pty Ltd. with 'John M.Chapman Collection' bookplate. In excellent condition.
Estimate $600
Passed in
George Bentham & Ferdinand Mueller - Flora Australiensis: a Description of the Plants of the Australian Territory - 7 volumes, 1967, facsimile reprint of the 19th century standard work on the flora of Australia (1860s-70s). Very fine. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Froude James Anthony, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, 6 vols, London 1858-70, 12 vols with each of the six vols pub by J.Parker and Longhan Green, each vol in half morocco leather and marbled boards, each vol's front end paper has the book plate of Rear Admiral J.R.Paynter RN 1813-76. Vol 1 rear board loose, vol 2 repaired board, otherwise fine or better. (12)
Estimate $400
SOLD $300
The Historians of Greece, various editors and translators, 12 vols. New York, Tandy Thomas 1909, Herodotus in 4 vols., Thucydidies in 3 vols., Xenophon in 5 vols, copy no. 251 of the Olympic Edition of 1000. All in dark green buckram with upper edges in gilt, damage to some volumes. (12)
Estimate $350
SOLD $280
The Desert World, by Arthur Mangin, 1872 revised edition, The Scenery, Animal and Vegetable Life, and Physical Character of the Wilderness and Waste Places of the Earth, hard cover (17x24cm), 624pp, with 160 b&w illustrations, includes a chapter on 'The Australian Interior', sticker on inside of front cover with printed and hand written details, 'Model Public School/Presented To (Sarah Parton)/For Proficiency In/(Needlework)/A.Dadley, (1st Prize)/Sewing Mistress'. Front cover loose and some early pages with edge tears or slight loss of paper at edge, foxing, otherwise good and scarce as a school prize.
Estimate $40
SOLD $30