John Olsen. Drawing - the Human Touch... with an Interview by Ken McGregor
Melbourne, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014.
Large quarto, 352 pages with hundreds of illustrations (many in colour) plus an original signed pencil drawing, a signed photograph, and the statement of limitation (all three mounted on the front or rear free endpapers).
Quarter orange cloth and papered boards (both lettered in white, with colour artwork by Olsen reproduced on both boards); faint odour of camphor; a fine copy with the fine orange cloth clamshell box lettered in blind on the front panel.
Number 10 of only 24 copies of this 'special presentation' edition, bound and boxed thus, containing an original signed pencil drawing (figurative nudes, 210 × 154 mm), and an original signed photograph of Olsen drawing in his sketchbook (210 × 135 mm). They are tipped in on either side of the front free endpaper; the statement of limitation is tipped in on the verso of the rear free endpaper. Trove has the following to say about the standard edition (presumably quoting the publisher): 'This richly illustrated publication represents the author's attempt to locate as many of John Olsen's drawings as possible and Macmillan's determination to reproduce them in a book which will serve as a companion to our previous monographs on the artist's prints and paintings. Olsen is an artist who believes drawing to be the fundamental skill of artistic production and whose artworks, whether paintings, prints or drawings, indicate a keen sense of observation of human and animal behaviour translated into lively and sometimes humorous compositions dependent on the drawn line. He is a living legend on the Australian art scene, who claims: "Drawing is important in every stage of an artist's career. Drawing is the plank on which you build the architecture of your work. Drawing is a transferable energy, a life-force, and it entails many ways of observing." This book will inform and amuse as it reiterates the importance of drawing'.
Item #131262
Price (AUD):
$3,300.00