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Margaret Preston’s Lectures on art (signed)
PRESTON, Margaret
# 1325
contained within Art in Australia, third series, number seventy-two.
Sydney : John Fairfax and Sons, August 1938. Quarto, original green
wrappers, 80 pp. illustrated in colour and black and white, a very good
copy. This example inscribed on the front free endpaper in blue ink ‘To
Mrs. [George] Bell, with kind regards from Margaret Preston’. Among
the various articles and illustrations is a revised piece by Preston based
on a series of lectures she gave at the Art Gallery of New South
Wales in 1938. This issue is inscribed to the wife of noted modernist
painter George Bell.
$ 500
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PETSINIS, Tom and PAVLIDIS, Jim.
# 1201
Melbourne : Lexicon House, 2009. Quarto, quarter-kangaroo binding
over screenprinted boards by George Matoulas, [40] pp., each page
of text printed lithographically, 14 original lithographs by the artist.
Limited to 15 copies plus 3 artist’s proofs. A fine Australian artist’s
book by the highly regarded artist and author.
$ 1,800