Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell (First Edition)

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CRAYFORD, Peter (ed.; intro. John McDonald; foreword Edmund Capon; catalogue raisonné Brett Stone). The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell. Sydney: Public Pictures, 2008. Large Quarto. Original cloth boards. Original unclipped dust jacket. 360 pp. Numerous colour illustrations throughout. First edition, first printing (standard trade issue; a separate limited edition of 99 numbered and signed copies was also produced). Cressida Campbell AM (b. 1960) is, by any reasonable measure, one of the most significant and most commercially successful living Australian artists. Born in Sydney, she studied at East Sydney Technical College before travelling to Tokyo in 1985 to study at the Yoshida Hanga Academy, an experience that exposed her directly to the tradition of Japanese ukiyo-e printmaking and the work of masters such as Kitagawa Utamaro. Campbell's subjects are resolutely domestic : a kitchen shelf, a bowl of persimmons, the view from her own studio window, the harbour glimpsed through trees, all rendered with a precision of design and a richness of colour. Campbell's works have sold at auction for over half a million dollars, making her one of the most expensive living Australian artists working today, and one of her woodblocks achieved the highest price ever recorded at auction for a living Australian woman artist in 2022; the same year the National Gallery of Australia mounted its major retrospective Cressida Campbell , its first summer blockbuster exhibition dedicated t

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