'Golden Autumn'. A vintage gelatin silver photograph (visible image size 181 × 144 mm)
[Circa 1910s]. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
[Circa 1910s]. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
[Circa 1910s]. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1910. Signed and titled in pencil on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Reproduced in BEER, Leslie: 'The Art of John Kauffmann' (1919), plate 2; NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 9. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's..... More
Circa 1910s (the first regatta was held in 1910). Signed on the lower right of the image. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
1890s (a European scene, printed later). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1930s. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1930s. Signed in pencil on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1930s. Signed and titled (twice) on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 25 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True'). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold..... More
Circa 1930s. 'Photograph by J. Kauffmann, 243 Collins St., Melbourne' inkstamped on the verso of the image. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1910s. Signed on the lower right of the image. Reproduced in BEER, Leslie: 'The Art of John Kauffmann' (1919), plate 1. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
[Circa 1910s]. Signed and titled in pencil on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Signed in pencil on the lower right of the exposed original mount. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. This item forms part of our major retrospective exhibition of the works of John Kauffmann (1864-1942), the pioneering Australian..... More
Circa 1930. Signed and titled in pencil on the mount (now concealed by the mat). Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 47 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True'). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold..... More
[Circa 1940]. Signed on the lower right of the image. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
[Circa 1910s]. Initialled on the lower right of the image. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
[Circa 1910s]. Signed on the lower right of the image. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
[Circa 1910s]. Signed on the lower right of the image. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
[Circa 1910s]. Signed on the lower right of the image. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
We believe the subject to be the artist's father, Alexander Kauffmann (1823-July 1901), and that the fine head-and-shoulders portrait was taken after John Kauffmann's return from Europe in 1897. It is offered together with two small head-and-shoulders portrait photographs on opal glass; the subject in each case is a young..... More
[Circa 1920s]. Signed and titled in pencil on the mount. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Circa 1897 (a Sri Lankan scene, printed later). Signed on the lower right of the image, with the title in pencil on the original mount. Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 37 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True')..... More
[Circa 1910s]. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. More
Signed and titled (twice) in pencil on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). The boat is SS 'Alacrity', operated at the time by Howard Smith in Port Phillip Bay. Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney..... More
Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 56 (this print, which also appeared in the accompanying travelling exhibition, 'Soft but True'). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988); private collection, Sydney. Adelaide-born John Kauffmann (1864-1942), a pioneering..... More
[Circa 1910s]. Signed 'R. Porteous' in pencil on the original mount (now concealed by the mat). Reproduced in NEWTON, Gael: 'John Kauffmann, Art Photographer' (NGA, 1996), page 10 (but credited to 'Van Dyke studio'). Provenance: from the family of John Kauffmann, by descent (sold by Sotheby's Australia, 24 July 1988);..... More