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Davidson Auctions
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
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LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** Bears signature Albert Namatjira, 1902-1959) Central Australian landscape probably the work of Albert Namatjira in part, but with contributions by another hand - trunk of gumtree and overall composition typical of Namatjira's work. Watercolour36 x 53 cm ***
*** Redoute Pierre Joseph, 1759-1776, 11 plates from 'Atlas du voyage a La Recherche de La Perouse.' including No.13 'Eucalyptus Globulus;' no.14 'Exocarpos Cupressiformis;' no.15 'Diplarrena Moraea;' no.16 'Richea Glauca;' no.17 'Mazeutoxeron Rufum;' no. 18… ***
*** Jardine Walter, 1884-1970, 'The Skyways are today's Highways.', An advertising poster for Qantas Empire Airways designed by leading Australian commercial artist Walter Jardine in 1939. The poster depicts the Short C Class Empire flying-boat 'Cooee' taking… ***
*** Map, original hand drawn, Hollandia Nova dated 1644, including southern tip of Tasmania & part West Coast of New Zealand . Repaired tears, gauze backed. Standard of penmanship indicates a similar creation date. Indistinct pencil details to lower LH &… ***
*** Artist unknown, Trading vessel in Hong Kong harbour, Chinese Junk in distance. Oil on canvas, 45 x 59 cm ***
*** World War II Poster, 5, 'Please Pass Aong the Platform,' British Second World War poster depicts a crowded platform, and a mass of people blocking the platform's entrance as they have failed to use the several exit passages available for use. The text… ***
*** Trung, Nguyen (Vietnamese b.1940) 'Awaiting,' 2004. Certificate of authenticity from Apricot gallery, Hanoi (dated September 2004) . Oil on canvas, 89 x 89 cm ***
*** After Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 'Angel playing a Flageolet', stamped verso to work 'By Fredk Hollyer, 8 Pembroke square, Kensington W11.' Presumably, pastel over - working of a Frederick Hollyer (1837-1933) photograph of the Burne-Jones original, pastel… ***
*** Van der Beek, Harmsen (Dutch 1897-1953) (5), five original Noddy illustrations. Provenance: Sotheby's London 'Noddy 2' 24th Nov 1998. Comprising: 'What have you been up to to-day? Asked Mr Plod,' signed 'Beek' and inscribed p. 43 17.5 x 12.5 cm image (lot… ***
*** European school, peasant woman with scythe, possibly Hungarian, unsigned, oil on canvas on board, 68 x 60 cm ***
*** E. Mather & Co Motivational posters. The Perfect finish; He Merely Struts; all Clear Ahead; Ready to Spring (20 cm. Tear); Are You Feeling Fit? pub., 1929. Posters 110 x 91 cm ***
*** Kasiulis, Vytautas (1918-1995), Clown and Monkey Musicians, 55 x 65 cm, oil on canvas ***
*** Reginald Arthur Borstel (1875-1922) gouache titled 'Three Warships at Sydney Heads', dated 1915 ***
*** Hunt, Charles Henry (1857-1938), 'Hydro-Majestic Hotel, Medlow Bath,' c.1920s. Original vintage lithographic poster pub. Bloxham & Chambers Ltd, Sydney. Lithograph, 75 x 99.5 cm (sight) (lobby), 75 x 99.5 cm (sight) (lobby), original vintage lithographic… ***
*** Framed map city of Sydney, New South Wales. A H Fullwood. Centennial number of the Sydney mail, supplement to the Sydney mail January 21st,1888. Image (62.5 x 92.5 cm), frame (81.5 x 109 cm). ***
*** Olsky, 'Chapeaux Mossant,' 1928, vintage lithographic poster pub. Vercasson, Paris, lithograph, 152.5 x 110 cm, (image) 193 x 149 cm, (framed) ***
*** Walter Jardine, 'The Skyways are Today's Highways.', offset lithograph on paper, (101.5 x 64 cm) (overall). Provenance: Australian War Memorial, Canberra (deaccession). Other Notes: An advertising poster for Qantas Empire Airways designed by leading… ***
*** Williams Rhys, 1894-1976, 'Out of a Great Past a Greater Future.', An advertising poster for Qantas Empire Airways designed by leading Australian commercial artist Rhys Williams c.1938. The poster depicts a plane set against a globe, with Australia… ***
*** Hart, Pro (1928-2006), Dragonfly, oil on board, 24 x 22 cm ***
*** Rhys Williams (1894-1976), 'A New Air Map from the Australian Viewpoint...' An advertising poster for Qantas Empire Airways designed by leading Australian commercial artist Rhys Williams c.1938. The poster depicts the globe laid flat divided into four… ***
*** Album, containing 22 S.T. Gill goldfields lithographs. Including various other engravings and prints. 21 x 16 cm ***
*** Dullah (Indonesian 1919-1996) 'Sulawesi fisherman,' 1975. Label verso states that this painting was 'Purchased in Singapore 1975.' Oil on canvas on board, 58 x 48 cm ***
*** Sydney Harbour artists sketchbook containing 43 small watercolours and numerous pencil sketches with notes on light and colours, no signature, would appear to be the work of a professional artist. Page size 14 x 10 cm ***
*** Rhys Williams, 'Out of a Great Past a Greater Future.', offset lithograph on paper, 100.5 x 66 cm overall. Provenance: Australian War Memorial, Canberra (deaccession). Other Notes: An advertising poster for Qantas Empire Airways designed by leading… ***
*** Attrib. Read, Richard (Senior) (-1827), Portrait of a Gentlemen, watercolour and gouache 25.5 x 20.5 cm ***
*** Blue Mountains travel poster 'See for Yourself ', original c.1950 poster by Jules Henry Roy Rousel (1897-1985) featuring a valley view with a waratah foreground. Good condition. Screenprint 100 x 75 cm ***
*** World War II Poster, 'One In - All In.' Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment billboard poster by L G McPherson. The poster encourages men to join the Australian Imperial Force. The image fills the top half of the poster. In… ***
*** Dullah (Indonesian1919-1996) study of an Elderly woman. Signed lower right, & signed & inscribed verso 1978. Oil on canvas, 35 x 30 cm ***
*** Williams Rhys, 1894-1976, 'A New Air Map from the Australian Viewpoint...' An advertising poster for Qantas Empire Airways designed by leading Australian commercial artist Rhys Williams c.1938. The poster depicts the globe laid flat divided into four… ***
*** Clarke, J Height Complete Suite of 10 New South Wales Supplement Plates. From 'Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c. &c. From drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. A Supplement of New South Wales.' [artwork… ***
*** Walter Jardine, original Australian travel poster advertising Booking travel through Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd. The poster shows a sphinx & several Egyptian images as well as a plane & a liner. It advertises for travel anywhere & everywhere book through… ***
*** 19th century Chinese Australian school, portrait of a woman with posy Chinese characters inscribed to canvas verso. Oil on canvas 76 x 58 cm. Provenance: old storeroom collection of an accumulator generalist. ***
*** Resch's Beer advertising poster. Golfer, 'Now For the Best Round of All,' by Alan D Baker. Tear and losses to margins. 100 x 75 cm ***
*** Adelaide Elizabeth Perry (1871-1973) oil on board titled 'Eden, South Coast, NSW', dated 1935. Provenance: From the collection of Elizabeth Swan (the niece of the artist) ***
*** Rodgers Harry, 1929-2012, 3, 'London,' New York.' & 'Hong Kong', Qantas travel posters. Lithograph, 3 99 x 70 cm, each, approx. ***
*** Cressida Campbell (1960-) woodblock print (5/20) titled 'Marvel Shoe Company', dated 1987 ***
*** Calvert, H. H., King Parrot, 1921, watercolour (oval) ***
*** Lindsay Lionel, 1874-1961, 6, Six Original etchings framed together. From upper left: 'Hyde Park Corner,' 1913, 45/50, 12 x 16.5 cm; 'Last of Old Hunter St,' 1916, 10/50, 15.5 x 14.5 cm; 'Demolition of Girls High School,' 1924, 14/75, 9 x 20 cm; 'Milsons… ***
*** 1907 Leura land auction poster. 'Leura, Choice Allotments, Liberal Sizes and Depths, magnificent Views' heads this Richardson and Wrench original poster. Sale was new Years day and includes section 6, the site of the original Leuralla. Poster printed by… ***
*** Bird's eye view of Parramatta river, New South Wales. The scene of the great Sculling Contest between Trickett and Rush for the Championship of the World. Supplement to the illustrated Sydney news July, 1877. Gibbs, Shallard, & Co. Printers, 108 Pitt… ***
*** Bears signature Tom Roberts, Farmer and Wife with cattle at the Ford, dated 1880. Oil on board, 14 x 31 cm ***
*** European School, Drawing Room Frolic, 78 x 64 cm, oil on panel ***
*** Blue Mountains travel poster 'We're Expecting You', original c.1950 poster by Joseph Booker (1908-1971). Features Megalong Valley view with blossoms in the foreground. Screenprint 100 x 75 cm ***
*** John Gould, 'Broad - fronted Wombat, Phascolomys Latifrons.', (J.Gould & H.C. Richter), Descriptive sheet verso, hand coloured lithograph, 34.5 x 51.5 cm ***
*** Attributed to Whiteley, Brett (1939-1992), 'Monks Playing Basketball' 27 x 14 cm ink and wash ***
*** Terence Cuneo (British 1907-1996) 'Track Laying by Night', large poster for British Railways c.1949, printed by Waterlow & Sons, London. Faint older fold lines, some toning to margins, colour good. 98 x 124 cm (image) ***
*** Terence Cuneo (British 1907-1996) 'Service to Industry - brick Making', large poster for British Railways c.1949, printed by JoHNWaddington & Co. All over toning, short tears and losses to margins with some restoration to centre top margin. Crushed fold… ***
*** Early Australian painted canvas advertising banner, 'The Boomerang Body Builder', inscribed lower right 'Joe little, 6 Geo[rge] St W, Sydney'. Joe Little appears as a signwriting business in the Sydney Morning Herald 4 Dec 1929. This possibly earlier,… ***
*** Adelaide Elizabeth Perry (1871-1973) oil on canvas titled 'Lane Cover River, Jacaranda and Riverview', dated 1953. Provenance: From the collection of Elizabeth Swan (the niece of the artist) ***
*** Gilt framed reproduction Print of William Holman Hunt's 'Il Dolce far Niente.' quality early frame, 135 x 114 cm, (overall). Provenance: John Schaeffer collection; thence by descent. ***
*** John Gould, -3, 'Little rat, Mus Nanus', (34 x 53 cm), 'Delicate mouse, Mus Delicatulus', (52 x 35 cm); &, 'White-Footed Antechinus, Antechinus Albipes', (53 x 34 cm, Descriptive sheet verso (2), hand coloured lithograph (3) ***
*** Aboriginal School (34), various works by various Artists, each with photograph of the artist holding the picture. Various, acrylic on canvas, (34) ***
*** Greco, Emilio (b.1932), Still Life 38.5 x 59 cm, oil on board ***
*** Andreani, Andrea (Italian 1558-1629) Bathing Nymphs, after Parmigianino, 1605. Chiaroscuro woodcut 29 x 20 cm ***
*** Kluge, Constantine (1912-2003), Eastern Buildings in a Garden 51 x 40.5 cm, oil on canvas ***
*** 19th century school, Artist Unknown, (pair) two Colonial Scenes numbered four and 6, depicting natives or villagers at work. #4 entitled 'Bao - Tok - Ana?', signed with monogram and initials (SSMA or FFMA) Dated (18)82; the other entitled 'Miasa' also… ***
*** Garland, Colin Man and Rooster, 1959. 59.5 x 59.5 cm, oil on board ***
*** Posters, 4, 'Imperial Airways - To Africa, India, The Far East, Australia, British pre-Second World War advertisement for Imperial Airways by Lewitt-Him. Imperial Airways was a company created as a result of the amalgamation of all the existing aircraft… ***
*** Cayley (Snr), Neville Henry (1853-1903), White Swans, 1900, watercolour, 49.5 x 30 cm ***
*** Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) coloured etching 65/100), titled 'Abstract Shapes' ***
*** After Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 'The Beguiling of Merlin', inscribed in pencil verso 'Hollyer no. 40,' possibly indicating print by Frederick Hollyer (1837-1933), Print lined with tissue paper, 50.5 x 30 cm. Provenance: Estate late John Schaeffer. ***
*** Various 18th & 19th century Italian drawings. Mostly pencil or ink, landscapes & architecture, ink, pencil & watercolour (20), 19 x 24 cm (average) ***
*** John Gould, -2, 'Plumed partridge Bronze-Wing, Geophaps Plumifera', &, 'Black-Tailed Tribonyx, Tribonyx Ventralis', Descriptive sheet verso (2), (J. Gould & H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph, 55 x 37 cm & 54 x 37 cm ***
*** Parker, Colleen (b.1946), children at the bridge, oil on board, 50 x 39 cm ***
*** Apouatimi, Jean Baptiste 'Heads,' 2003, certificate of authenticity available. 118 x 23 cm, oil on canvas ***
*** Blackman, Charles (b.1928), (2), 'Memories,' and 'Pink Nightmare,' from folio 'Blackman - A Celebration on His Seventieth Birthday.' includes two descriptive sheets. 74 x 59 cm and 71 x 57 cm Screenprint (2) ***
*** Gould, John (1804-1881), and (W Hart) Osphranter Antilophinus,' Antilopine Wallaroo. Drawn and lithographed by Gould & Richter. Published London, Lithograph 50 x 33.5 cm ***
*** 'An Australian Eleven,' and 'An English Team,' 1895. Original frames and mats with bird's names handwritten. Bright, Harry (2), hand coloured lithograph (2), 23.5 x 63 cm ***
*** Prints of J W Waterhouse's 'Mariamne leaving the Judgement seat of Herods.', overall framed dimensions 130 x 101 cm. Provenance: Estate late John Schaeffer. ***
*** Various 18th & 19th century British drawings etc. Mostly landscape pencil sketches, including Samuel Prout & John Varley. Also 2 small watercolours, ink, pencil & watercolour (17), 13 x 20 cm (average) ***
*** 'Holtermann's life preserving drops'. A remedial poster promoting medicinal product, featuring the largest specimen of gold and quartz discovered in Australia by Holtermann. Printed by Gibbs, Shallard & Co. Colour Printers, 108 Pitt St, Sydney. Coloured… ***
*** Bookplate, 'Ex Libris, Sydney long.' edition unknown. Unsigned, but with plate impression. Engraving. 9.5 x 6.5 cm (image) ***
*** Jack, Kenneth (1924-2006), 'Capri', watercolour, 37 x 53 cm ***
*** Bromley, David (b.1960), 'Jillian,' 2011. Screenprint 4/100, 74 x 56.5 cm ***
*** Saito, Kiyoshi (1907-1997), 'Jiko-In Nara 1970' (Winter in Nara) Woodblock 48/60 38 x 52.5 cm ***
*** Neville Henry Cayley (Senior) (1853-1903) watercolour titled 'Magpie and Caterpillar' ***
*** Jack Absalom (1927- ) oil on board titled 'Flinders Range' ***
*** Japanese school (Edo period) late 19th century portrait of high ranking court official with sword and sceptre, 16th century quotation in old script which relates to long service. 133 x 180 cm, oil and gilding on canvas, (Re-lined) ***
*** Canvas-backed original movie poster gone with the wind. French release 'Autant en Emporte le Vent.' artwork by Roger Soubie, 1898-1984. Lithograph 148 x 227 cm ***
*** Poster advertising Imperial Airways. The poster (64 x 99.5 cm), folded into eight, shows a Scylla bi-plane with Imperial Airways London on its fuselage & the following text: Imperial Airways the Greatest air service in the world the Greatest Luxurious air… ***
*** World War II poster, 'Your country needs You! Join the A.I.F Now!', Australian Commonwealth military Forces AIF second World War recruiting poster. A black and white image of Winston Churchill's head and left hand pointing toward the viewer dominates the… ***
*** John Gould, 'Australian Spine-Tailed swallow, Acanthylis Caudacuta', &, 'Australian swift, Cypselus Australis', Descriptive sheet verso (2), (J. Gould & H.C. Richter), hand coloured lithograph (2), 47 x 30 cm & 52 x 35.5 cm ***
*** After Raphael, Madonna della seggiola, oil on board, diameter 16.5 cm ***
*** Long, Leonard (b.1911), 'The Gorge, Boggy Creek, Nowa Nowa, Vic.' Wagner Art gallery label, and personal inscription by the artist describing the picture verso. Oil on board, 39 x 50 cm ***
*** SAITO, Kiyoshi (1907-1997), seated Geisha. Back View. Woodblock 38.5 x 24.5 cm ***
*** Cayley (Senior), Neville Henry (1853-1903), Flock of Black Swans, 1900, watercolour, 49.5 x 30 cm ***
*** Lara, Edwina (2), 'A Grey Morning;' and Rough Seas on the Harbour. 27 x 42 cm and 27 x 42 cm, oil on canvas, (2) ***
*** Terence Cuneo (British 1907-1996) 'Clear Road Ahead', view of the cab interior 'Monmouth Castle.' large poster for British Railways c.1949. Toning to margins, repaired 18 cm tear (not overt) Rh side, horizontal creasing through title and some water… ***
*** John Gould, 'Australian Pipit, Anthus Australis', &, 'Brown, Tree-Creeper, Climalteris Scandens', Descriptive sheet verso (1), hand coloured lithograph (2), 55 x 37 cm & 53 x 35 cm ***
*** European school, The Adoration. Initialled 'AG 1553,' in the plate. Engraving 11 x 7 cm ***
*** Federation carved plaque. Wallaby surrounded by gum blossoms. Stained Queensland maple. 25 x 28 cm ***
*** Harvey, Lewis Jarvis (1871-1949) plaster relief plaque of Lloyd George. Monogrammed and titled to front; inscribed verso, 'Dec 17, 1920.' original arts and Crafts' stained oak frame. 23.5 x 14 cm (plaque) 41 x 25 cm (framed) ***
*** Maurice Namatjira (1938-1977), watercolour titled 'Central Australia Landscape with Ghost Gums' ***
*** David Boyd (1924- ) A4 screen print titled 'Frolic with the Living Bass' ***
*** Lesueur, C a Nouvelle - Hollande: N'elle Galles du Sud' 'Ornithorinque Brun & Roux' (Platypuses). Coloured engraving 23.5 x 31.5 cm ***
*** Eyre, John 1771-1812 'New South Wales 1810' Chromolithographs 4, No.1 - ''View of Sydney from the East side of the Cove', No.2 - 'View of Sydney from the West side of the Cove', No.3 - 'View of Sydney from the East side of the Cove', No.4 - 'View of… ***