Books + Art - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Russell Drysdale
# 2162
Melbourne : Richmond Hill Press, 1979. Elephant folio, full leather
(somewhat marked), essays, 45 full page colour plates reproducing
Drysdale paintings and drawings, paper folio with 6 loose colour
plates, all housed in a tan clamshell box, a little bumped. Limited to 500
copies signed by the artist, this is a presentation copy from Drysdale
to his friend and art dealer Rudy Komon, inscribed on the limitation
page.
The drawing referred to in the letter, Drysdale's work for Kumon
titled The Connoisseur, was originally included by Drysdale in a folder
inside the book. A manuscript note on the outside of this folder
bears a message to this effect (but the drawing is no longer inside!).
The drawing was part of the exhibition Russell Drysdale : drawings,
celebrating the centenary of Drysdale's birth, held at the National
Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney, 17 February - 25 March, 2012, and
curated by Lou Klepac.
$ 950
The burnt ones (signed copy)
[PATRICK WHITE]
# 2273
London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964. First edition. Octavo, brown
cloth with pictorial dust jacket (four paintings by Sidney Nolan), priceclipped,
owner's inscription MAISIE DRYSDALE, BOUDDI to front
free endpaper, (front and rear pastedowns and endpapers foxed),
SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY PATRICK WHITE, 314 pp (mild
foxing to edges). A good copy.
Patrick White (1912-1990), the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize
in Literature (1973); Maisie Drysdale, wife of Russell Drysdale (1912-
1981), one of Australia's most celebrated artists of the twentieth
century.
$ 500
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