Item #131263 Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics, 1957-2005. John OLSEN, Ken McGREGOR.
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics, 1957-2005
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics, 1957-2005
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics, 1957-2005
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics, 1957-2005
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics, 1957-2005
Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics, 1957-2005

Teeming with Life. John Olsen: His Complete Graphics, 1957-2005

South Yarra, Macmillan Art Publishing, 2005 [presumed first edition, second printing] (printed in China, with the printed dedication 'For Tessa and Cassandra | & | Tim, Louise and Jane' and ISBN 1 876832 23 1).

Folio, 264 pages with over 430 colour illustrations plus an original signed ink drawing and signed photograph.

Blue-grey papered boards blocked in silver; spine a little rubbed; odour of camphor; a near-fine copy in the fine cloth-bound slipcase.

Number 7 of one of two series of 10 copies of the 'special presentation' issue, signed by John Olsen, with an original signed ink drawing (130 × 208 mm) and an original signed photograph of the artist at work (210 × 135 mm) tipped in to a plain card portfolio tipped in on the front free endpaper. The colophon (printed on a leaflet mounted on the verso of the rear free endpaper) indicates that this issue was released in 2014 (surprisingly using the sheets of the second printing of the first edition, not the revised second edition of 2011). Deluxe issues of the first and second printings were also produced (70 copies each with a different original etching for each printing). This important catalogue raisonné was compiled in consultation with John Olsen and Jeffrey Makin.

Item #131263

Price (AUD): $4,000.00