Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His complete graphics 1957 – 2005 (Publisher’s edition with drawing)

A$4,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

By Ken McGregor in consultation with John Olsen and Jeffrey Makin. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2005. Quarto, silver decorated cloth in matching slipcase, 264 pp, illustrated throughout. First edition, first printing of the definitive catalogue raisonné of Olsen’s graphics. This is the Publisher s Edition, limited to 20 copies (numbered in two series of 10 copies: this copy is 7/10), specially bound, signed by John Olsen, with an original photograph of Olsen by Ken McGregor, signed by Olsen, tipped-in, and with an original signed drawing or watercolour sketch by Olsen tipped in, each unique. Note: A deluxe edition of 70 copies with an original etching was also published, and in addition to this, the second printing of the first edition was also issued in a deluxe edition with another etching, Emu Spring, also limited to 70 copies. This Publisher s Edition, envisaged in a series of 10 copies (later expanded to a second series of 10 copies) is the only edition to contain an original drawing or watercolour sketch by one of Australia s greatest artists.

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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