Item #119616 Nora Heysen. Nora HEYSEN, Lou KLEPAC.
Nora Heysen

Nora Heysen

Sydney, Beagle Press, 1989.

Large quarto, 80 pages with 2 portrait illustrations and 56 full-page colour plates.

Papered boards; a fine copy with the dustwrapper very lightly sunned on the spine.

Nora Heysen (1911-2003), the fourth child of Hans Heysen and a fine artist in her own right, was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and the first Australian women to be appointed an official war artist. This copy is signed on the title page by Nora Heysen and Lou Klepac. Loosely inserted is the invitation card to the 2009 Carrick Hill travelling exhibition, 'Nora Heysen - Light and Life'.

Item #119616

Price (AUD): $300.00

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