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New Collectors Art including: The Collection of Jann Medlicott, Twentieth-Century Design & Studio Ceramics — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:310
Sale Title:New Collectors Art including: The Collection of Jann Medlicott, Twentieth-Century Design & Studio CeramicsLots with images:310
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:238
Date:27-Jun-2023
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Chester Nealie, anagama fired vase, with two loop handles to the shoulder, coarse adhesions to the body, incised potter's mark and dated 1991 to the base, height 25 cm
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Peter Lange, celadon teapot, porcelain, with flat lid, incised signature to base, width 22 cm
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Peter Lange, 'Broken Brick' teapot, the earthenware body shaped as a broken brick, the handle as a screwed-in iron rod and the lid as a bath plug, width 19.5 cm
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Peter Lange, 'Pebble Stones' teapot, the earthenware body and lid shaped as pebble stones, the spout and the handle as iron rods, incised signature to base, width 22 cm
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Len Castle, seven stoneware pebbles, with black 'Burnt' pigment, impressed or incised potter's initials to bases, width 6 cm max
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Len Castle, very early slip trailed pin dish, decorated with a swirling brown abstract design on a buff coloured ground, impressed potter's rare castellated mark to the base, diameter 10.5 cm
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Len Castle, early slip trailed pin dish, decorated with a pair of caterpillars with black highlights on a tan coloured ground, impressed potter's cypher to the base, diameter 10.5 cm
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Len Castle, slip trailed pin dish, decorated with a stylised pair of kiwi with an egg in white on a grey background (A/F), impressed potter's cypher to base, diameter 10.5 cm
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Len Castle, 'Manukau Mood' square dish, very unusual slab formed stoneware dish with slightly raised sides decorated with hand incised double circle and lines; glazed in light grey and then partially dipped in the same glaze over a brick-red base glaze colour, giving a shino effect, impressed potter's cypher to the base, along with two small original handwritten labels reading 'Manukau Mood' and '26', 3 x 17.5 x 16.5 cm
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Len Castle, rare and early mallet shaped bottle vase, coarse stoneware made with West coast sand added to the clay, a blue band to the slightly ribbed body, impressed potter's cypher to the foot, height 23 cm, note: Len Castle confirmed to the current owner that this bottle was made in the 1950s at his Westmere kiln.
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Len Castle, rare and early trefoil mallet shaped bottle vase, coarse stoneware made with West coast sand added to the clay, the body with impressed rope decoration under a band of blue glaze, impressed potter's cypher to the foot, height 19 cm, note: Len Castle confirmed to the current owner that this bottle was made in the 1960s at his Tawhini Road kiln in Titirangi.
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Len Castle, hanging vase, with unglazed white heavily textured surface, impressed potter's mark, height 28 cm
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Greg Barron, ribbed ovoid jar, stoneware with a thick heavily crackled glaze in white and iron-brown, potter's card affixed to the base, 25.5 x 28.5 x 28.5 cm
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Jim Greig, 'Unfolding Form' bowl, stoneware with jun type glaze, incised potter's mark to the base, width 39.5 cm
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Denis O'Connor, cylindrical vase, glazed stoneware with bands in brown, grey and mauve with incised and relief decorations, potter's mark to the foot, height 27 cm
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Denis O'Connor, 'Nut' bottle, salt glazed stoneware bottle with a cameo in relief of a peanut on a stand impressed potter's cypher and incised title around the bottom, height 20.5 cm
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Paul Maseyk, breast man, painted earthenware, titled and signed 'A.L. Sump' (pseudonym for the artist) to the base, height 30.5 cm. Provenance: Purchased from Masterworks gallery, 2007.
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Nick Mullany, untitled (tall Stack) - from the Strange/Familiar series, glazed paperclay, 2008, 38.5 x 11 x 11 cm, note: similar pieces were exhibited at 'Strange/Familiar', Objectspace, June 2008
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Hiroe Swen (Japanese Australian), slab trough vase, glazed stoneware decorated with abstract design, signed and with impressed marks, width 18.5 cm
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Graham Ambrose, two large white bottle vases, porcelain, incised potter's initials to the bases, height 58.5 cm and height 52.5 cm
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Graeme Storm, floor vase, stoneware in rich blue barium glaze (minor glaze restoration), impressed potter's mark to base, height 45 cm
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Graeme Storm, large and impressive charger, stoneware with aqua green glaze with darker, highlights and brown rim, pierced to the foot ring for wall suspension, diameter 51.5 cm
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Sang-Sool Shim and Keum-Sun Lee, impressive and unique hanging platter, glazed and painted ceramic with high relief decoration of Nikau palms, signed to the base, diameter 44 cm. Provenance: Purchased directly from the potters in 2009.
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Roy Cowan, Wellington Street scene charger, glazed stoneware with painted decoration, with wall mounts, diameter 45 cm
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John Featonby, large spherical floor vase, dung fired and burnished ceramic with a matt grey finish, incised koru design and four cut-out triangles to the shoulders, impressed signature to the base, 45 x 43 x 43 cm
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Sue Forward, a set of three stoneware floor vases, of cylindrical shape with tapering sides (one A/F), incised signature and dated 2004 to bases, height 83 cm, height 80.5 cm and 79 cm
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Potter unknown, large and impressive ribbed baluster garden vase, white glazed stoneware, height 92 cm
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Potter unknown, 'Zig-zag' floor sculpture, painted earthenware (A/F), height 64.5 cm
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Potter unknown, square section red floor vase, slab built stoneware, height 69.5 cm
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Potter unknown, terracotta floor vase, of oval shape with shaped elongated rims, height 64 cm
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Chinese Tang style pottery horse, with sancai decoration, impressed '?' lingguo' mark, export stamp to the underside, height 33 cm. Provenance: this pottery horse was purchased in Xi'an in the 1980s.
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John Crawford, large earthenware horse, of stylised form, painted in bright red with yellow and green highlights, and with applied details, including a small figure riding on the back, height 47 cm
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Graeme Storm, small Orb vase, stoneware with rich blue barium glaze, impressed potter's mark to base, height 14.5 cm
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Graeme Storm, matched pair of oval bowls, stoneware with rich barium glaze, impressed potter's mark to bases, width 14.5 cm and width 13 cm
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Keith Blight, slab vase, textured surface with whirlwind motif in a gradation of beiges, impressed potter's mark, height 37 cm
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Potter unknown, large salt glazed vase, stoneware in blue and brown salt glazes, height 44 cm
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Peter Stichbury, two oval platters, stoneware with wax resist decoration depicting fish on a blue glazed ground, width 44 cm max
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Potter unknown, square stoneware platter, heavily potted, with dark grey glaze to the centre, unglazed rim and exterior; possibly by Doreen Blumhardt, width 26.5 cm
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Keith Blight, shaped bowl, stoneware with a matt dark grey and aquagreen glaze, the shaped rim with a rough, uneven effect, impressed potter's mark to the base, diameter 32 cm
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Peter Stichbury, blue and white teapot and bottle, stoneware, the teapot with cane handle, the bottle with a screw lid, both with impressed potter's mark, width 15 cm and height 16 cm
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Peter Stichbury, two stoneware teapots, one with shino glaze, the other with jun glaze, both with impressed mark to base, width 18.5 cm and width 17 cm
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Chris weaver, teapot, black glazed porcelain with bent wood handle, potter's mark to base, width 17 cm
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Chris Weaver (attrib.), porcelain salt fired shaped bowl, in dark blue, decorated with stylized leaf design, width 21 cm
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Duncan Shearer, stoneware teapot with four small porcelain cups, the teapot with shino glaze, the shaped cups in white, all with impressed potter's mark, the teapot, width 16 cm, the cups, height 7 cm
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Duncan Shearer, small shaped stoneware vase, together with a salt glazed pourer by an unidentified potter, both with potter's mark to bases, height 17 cm and height 19 cm
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A group of 3 assorted ceramics, including a Chinese Yixing-type teapot, an unmarked stoneware shaped teapot, and a small porcelain black glazed 'Knotted' vase, the Chinese teapot marked, width 24 cm, width 17 cm and height 11 cm
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A group of five assorted ceramic pieces, including a small Paul Winspear bowl, a J. & S. Killick orb vase, a Carol swan orb, an English Keramica (Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire) tall vase, and an unmarked spire neck vase, most marked or with original label
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Japanese stoneware vase, potted with an 'offset' rim, with poured jun glaze over brown glaze, height 22 cm
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George Sempagala (attrib.), two matching sets of nine stoneware rice bowls, including a set of five bowls with jun and tenmoku glazes, and a set of four with sang de boeuf and grey ash glazes, diameter 12.5 cm max
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George Sempagala, three stoneware mugs, with the potter's mark impressed to the foot; together with another mug and a pair of goblets, these are unmarked but attributed also to George Sempagala, sizes vary, height 12.5 cm max, note: the Ugandan potter George Sempagala studied with Michael Cardew in Abuja during the early 1960s. In the 1990s he worked in New Zealand at diving creek Potteries with Barry Brickell.
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Two publications by Colin McCahon, including: Rita; seven Poems, edited with an afterword and notes by Peter Simpson, Fernbank studio, the Holloway press 2001, number 119 of an edition of 175 copies (23 cm, fine copy); and the last painting, Peter Webb Galleries 1993, 18p, catalogue limited to 500 copies, with an essay by Francis pound (25.4 cm, fine copy).
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A collection of New Zealand Art periodicals, including: Ascent - Journal of the arts in NZ, 4 issues, Caxton press 1967-69; Gordon H. Brown Lecture No's 1-5, well: Victoria Univ. 2003-2007; Bulletin of New Zealand Art history, a broken run of sixteen issues Vol. 1 1972 - Vol. 20 1999, some with notations, inscriptions & signatures of Frances pound; Antic - No's 12,3, 5, 6, 7 & 19, published by Susan Davis [et al]. 1986 - 1989; Art New Zealand - 7 issues 1978 - 1986; splash - 4 issues, Vol 1. No.1. No.2. No…
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Seven volumes of international art books, including: Josef Albers - Despite straight lines [1977]; David Raskin - Donald Judd, Yale Univ press [2010]; Anthony Caro - table sculptures 1966 - 1977; Kroller-Muller. Nonderd jaar bouwen en verzamelen [1988]; Arp 1886-1966, Hatje 1986; Mathew S Witkovsky [editor] future Moholy-Nagy Present, Chicago 2017; Gyorgy Kepes - Module Symmetry, Francis Pound's name on endpaper, proportion, London, 1966.
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A selection of art books and booklets, including: Ralph Hotere - dream of snow Falling, catalogue 2007, John leech gallery; Len Lye & Tony Nicholls - double harmonic, exhibition catalogue with Cd disc in back pocket; Jeffrey Harris, recent work, 1989, Deutscher; Jeffery Harris, exhibition 1993, Niagara, Australia; Walters, Gimblett, Bambury, Jonathon Jensen gallery 1992; three card brochures featuring Michael Parek?whai.
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A collection of Billy apple publications, including: Billy apple poster - new Premises: the given as an Art political statement, Peter Webb Galleries limited 1979; Billy; source book 7/2009 [2 copies]; as good as gold Billy apple Art transactions, 1981-1991 [2 copies]; Christina Barton, the Expatriates Barrie Bates, Adam Art gallery 2005; two other brochures.
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Midwest magazine, broken run of eleven issues: No.1. 1992 to no 10, 1996, some double ups.
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A collection of private press publications, including: Tara McLeod, Vanishing Events, pear tree press, designed, printed by hand and bound at the 1996 pear tree press, Auckland no 5 of fifty copies, original wood engravings and linocuts by Tara McLeod, and printers' blocks illustrating brief excerpts from works by New Zealand writers; Stephan Zweig, the invisible collection, Ny, privately printed by Gunnar a. Kaldewey for Peter Kraus, 1990, limited to 90 copies, inscribed by Peter Kraus; Jonty Valentine,…
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A collection of David Tremlett publications, including: David Tremlett, wall drawings, Barcelona 1995, inscribed by the artist to Sue and Francis on the front endpaper; working inside David Tremlett [1989]; Passo Dentro, 2000; a Quiet Madness, Kestner-Gesellschaft 1992; dates Differentes, 1987; David Tremlett, serpentine gallery 1989; written form, Brussels 1990; one other volume with no publication details.
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Major-General Robley, Moko: or Maori tattooing, facsimile of the original 1896 edition, Reed 1969
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W. Dittmer, Te Tohunga, facsimile of the original edition published in 1907, Reed 1970.
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A collection of Gordon Walters and Milan Mrkusich publications, including: parallel lines, 1994 [2 copies]; a geometric order; Kahukura, Adam Art gallery 2000, with annotations by Francis pound; Gordon Walters Milan Mrkusich, works from the 1950s [7 copies]; Critical Inquiry, Vol.22, No.1, 1995, cover by Gordon Walters; Milan Mrkusich a decade further on 1974-1983 [2 copies]; Milan Mrkusich paintings 1946-1972 [2 copies]; Milan Mrkusich six journeys, 1996; Sue Crockford gallery - Animated Abstraction; four…
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A collection of Art booklets and Brochures, including: Daniel Burne - coloured Transparency, Sue Crockford gallery 1992 [7 copies]; Patrick Raynaud, Rollerbox La sculpture en Transit, 1988; Patrick pound, the Tailor's library 1996; Caroline Rothwell - Elsewhere; Adam Art gallery - Botanica; Sprengel Museum Hannover 2001 - Raft; Anne Tronche - Nature Artificielle; Da Nile is not a river in Africa, 2000; Jim Barr - party games, with Rob, Bob, Bruce and Dave 1984.
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A collection of Quarterly Journals and booklets, including: modern New Zealand edited by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins [7 issues]; Len Lye five Fountains and a firebush, 2008; Visionary Architecture, Elam, 1962; and more.
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A collection of John Reynolds publications, including: I'm Doing Nothing Wrong, Sue Crockford gallery [3 copies]; summer - K Rd to Kingdom come, Govett Brewster 2002 [2 copies]; Certain words drawn, John Reynolds continued, Godwit 2008; nine Lives, 2003 Chartwell exhibition; a Retrospective exhibition, M.T. Woollaston, Colin McCahon, 1963.
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A collection of Gretchen Albrecht publications, including: after Nature, a survey - 23 years, 1986 [2 copies]; Gretchen Albrecht/ eve Armstrong - Making Arrangements, 2011 [2 copies]; catalogue - 4, Netherlands 2000; New Zealand - New York, Wooster gallery 1985.
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A collection of Peter Robinson publications, including: polymer Monoliths, Ima, 2011 [2 copies]; snow ball Blind time, Govett-Brewster 2008, hard cover with Cd disc at end; Gordon Bennett/ Peter Robinson -Three colours, Heide Museum of modern Art, 2004 [2 copies].
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A collection of contemporary Art catalogues and books, including: Stephen Banbury, text by Wystan Curnow & William McAloon, Craig Potton 2000; Anxious Images, Aag 1984; seven Painters / the Eighties, Serjeant gallery 1982 [2 copies]; E.H. McCormick, the Inland eye, Pelorus press 1959; the print Council of New Zealand exhibition 2 1969; a slide survey of New Zealand painting 1773-1967, Aag; New Zealand painting 1966, Aag; contemporary painting in New Zealand Qe II Arts Council, Aag; New Zealand painting…
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Christian Jankowski, Everything Fell together, Des Moines Art Center, Adam Art gallery 2011; together with Neil Pardington & Lara Strongman - behind closed doors.
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Two Art catalogues, the Asia Pacific Triennial of contemporary Art, 2006 [large illustrated catalogue]; Luminous world, contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia 2012.
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A collection of Art catalogues, including: John McLaughlan - 3 exhibition catalogues, New York 1987 - 1988 & London 1992; Boyd Webb, photographic works 1976-1981, Aag 1981; Boyd Webb, Whitechapel gallery 1987; Daniel Buren, serpentine gallery 1987; Daniel Buren, Les Ecrits, 1965 - 1990; and a small bundle of booklets & brochures.
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A collection of gallery catalogues, including: Auckland city Art gallery - sculpture 1986, No's 1 & 2; New Zealand XI exhibition to celebrate 100th Anniversary of the opening of the Aag 1888; after McCahon, 1989; the Grid, lattice and Network, Aag, 1983, annotated by Francis pound; May 1976 Auckland city Art gallery Quarterly; Elam 1890 - 1990, Margot Philips Waikato 1983; Tane-Nui-A. Rangi Opened 20 February 1988, with a loosely enclosed Dedication programme and the programme for the Marae opening and…
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A collection of publications on New Zealand history and Historic Art, including: the Polynesian Society extract, 1946 - Te Kooti and his portraits; Anne Salmond - two Worlds, first Meeting between Maori and Europeans 1642-1772, soft covers; Drew Brownson - Rewene heart of the Hokianga, 1984; Jean Irvine - Historic Hokianga, guide book 1965; Chapman Taylor - life in the pa, school Bulletin; seven soft covered books & catalogues of early New Zealand Art; Gil Docking - two hundred Years of New Zealand…
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A collection of New Zealand contemporary art books, including: W. McAloon - home and away, Aag, 1999, Chartwell collection; two copies of new image, Aspects of recent New Zealand Art, 1983; the Gibbs collection - New Zealand Modernism volume No's 1. 2. & 3. [two double ups]; modern prints Aotearoa, Aag 2014; Headlands, Thinking through New Zealand Art.
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A collection of Miscellaneous Art publications, including: Amerika Schildert, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam cat 74; material Perfection - minimal Art and its perfection, Western Australia 1998; Yuk King tan, oblong booklet [2 copies], no publication details, ca. 2000; Yuk King Ta, Overflow, city gallery Wellington 2006; Malevich - the world as NonObjectivity, Un published writings 1922-25, Vol. III, Copenhagen 1976; Prospect 93, an international exhibition of contemporary Art, Frankfurt 1993, includes…
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John Nixon and other artists, a large unbound folio catalogue, Stiftung fur knnkrete Kunst; together with a folding brochure: John Nixon Epw: polychrome, Twma 2007.
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Hattaway, Schoon, Walters, Madness and Modernism, Auckland 1997 [2 copies]; together with G.B. Stevenson - rock paintings at Kokoamo, north Otago, the Polynesian Society 1946; Theo Schoon, photographs & drawings, John leech gallery catalogue.
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A collection of Art publications, including: Toi Toi Toi, three Generations of artists from New Zealand Aag Toi o Tamaki 1999, text in German and English; UltraMarte, Arte Contemporaneo de Nueva Zealanda, Spanish, exhibition catalogue; cultural safety, contemporary Art from New Zealand exhibition catalogue, Wellington, Frankfurter 1995; Ian Wedde, G. Burke [editors] - Now see Hear, Wellington 1990; Transformers, a moving Experience, Aag, 1996; post Art and culture, Auckland 1994.
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A collection of Julian Dashper publications, including: Midwestern Unlike You and Me, New Zealand's Julian Dashper, Sioux city Art Center, 2005 [2 copies]; blue circles, Wellington 2003; sport 4 U, new writing 1990, New Zealand new cover by Julian Dashper; to the unknown New Zealander, Christchurch 2007, catalogue dedicated to Rita Angus; Donald Judd Julian Daspher, PS project space, Amsterdam 2013 [2 copies].
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A collection of New Zealand photography publications, including: all Gated open - photographs by Laurence Aberhart, Fisher gallery 1998 [2 copies]; Nature Morte, 1971-1980 by Laurence Aberhart, Wellington 1990 [2 copies]; celebrating wood, back to the future, Laurence Aberhart photographs, Fisher gallery 2016 [2 copies]; Peter Peryer - photographs, Wanganui 1985, inscribed by the artist.
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Thirteen volumes of miscellaneous, international catalogues, including Biennale catalogues and E.H. Gombrich - the Sense of order, a study in the Psychology of decorative Art, Ny 2002.
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A collection of books related to Renaissance Art, including: Hans Beltong - Florence and Baghdad, Renaissance Art and Arab Science, 2011; M.A. Lavin - the place of narrative, mural decorations in Italian churches 431-1,600, 1994; money and beauty, bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of Vanities, Giunti 2012; C. Jockle - Encyclopedia of Saints, London 1995; M.A. Lavin - Piero della Francesca: the Flagellation, London 1972; Kim W. Woods - Making Renaissance Art, London 2007; Allan Braham - Italian paintings…
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Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, the Photobook: a history volume 1, New York: Phaidon press, 2004, hardcover, 320 pages, profusely illustrated [a fine copy in a fine dust jacket].
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Exhibition catalogue, in the forest of dream, a group exhibition catalogue by Moet & Chandon New Zealand Art Foundation 1990; together with two copies of Accommodate - folding group exhibition catalogue 2006, St Paul St, aut Auckland 2006.
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James K. Baxter, Cyclostyled Typescript, appears to be unpublished, tall [30 x 10.5 cm] 57 l., text one side only. Includes 6 l., of religious poems of James K. Baxter, some with pencil notations. Remainder religious text and prayer by various catholic scholars. Bound and stapled in plain brown paper covers. Probably an unpublished proof copy. Pencilled inside front cover 'Oup father Weir'. Friend and confidant of James K. Baxter
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A collection of Julian Dashper catalogues, including: Julian Dashper, New Zealand Sue Crockford gallery, with essays by Francis pound and Jim & Mary Barr, 1991; Resource Proposal, Sue Crockford gallery, 1992 [3 copies]; slide show, Christchurch Mc Dougall Art Annex, 1992 [3 copies]; Dashper, Sue Crockford gallery 1990, that Says Everything [2 copies]; blue circles, Campbelltown, NSW 2003 [2 copies]; Julian Dashper/John Nixon - the world is Your studio, Gus Fisher, 2004 [4 copies].
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Three Richard Killeen publications, including: Destruction of the circle, Peter McLeavey gallery 1990, workshop press [2 copies]; age of fishes, Fisher gallery, 1991; Richard Killeen - Essay by Francis pound. New York 1991.
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Tension magazine, broken run of 12 issues, No's 2 - 25, Melbourne: Virgin press [1983-1991].
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A collection of bill Culbert publications, including: La petite Ecole 1997, inscribed by bill Culbert to Allan Gibbs 1998; Entre chien et loup - Afterdark 1992; light wine things [2 catalogues]; millennium Art gallery Marlborough; Lightworks - Wellington city gallery 1997; Selected works 1968 - 1986 [2 catalogues].
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A collection of Colin McCahon catalogues and Brochures, including: three paintings by Colin McCahon - Martin Browne fine Art Australia 1998; McCahon's necessary Protection - GovettBrewster gallery 1977; eight New Zealand artists - circa 1960's; a survey exhibition - Auckland city Art gallery 1972 [2 copies]; I will need words - National Art gallery 1984; a Tribute to McCahon 1919-87 - Hocken library Otago; Agnes wood - Colin McCahon the man and the Teacher, David Ling 1997, clippings enclosed; Colin…
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A collection of photography books, including: Ava Seymour - white house Years, Peter McCleavy, Michael Lett Galleries 2006/2007, inscribed by the artist; Ava Seymour - Health, happiness and Housing, Creative New Zealand [2 copies]; Ann Shelton - a Kind of Sleep, Govett Brewster 2004; Fiona Pardington - rising to the blow, Moet and Chandon, 1993; Glenn Jowitt - race day, Auckland Collins 1982; Richard Orgis - park 2011.
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Exhibition catalogues, including: Michael Dunn - Ian Scott paintings 1968 - 1982, Lopdell gallery 1991, letter to Francis loosely enclosed; Ian Scott paintings 1986-1989, Hamilton 1993 [2 copies]; constructed Intimacies [Various Artists], published by Moet & Chandon, 1989; James Ross - paintings 1984 & 1985, a text by Francis pound, Melbourne 1980s [4 copies]; James Ross - the red studio small paintings and sculpture 1982 - 1986, Gus Fisher gallery Auckland 2007, inscribed to Francis and Sue by the artist;…
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A collection of periodicals, including: Span [2], Turbulence, Intersticies [2], Art and Organised Labour, Scape, Bonzah.
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Exhibition catalogues, including: Color: four Painters - Max Gimblett, Joesf Marion, Phil Sims, Thornton Willis, exhibition catalogue, New York & Sweden 1982; earth / earth - catalogue, Barry Lett Galleries 1971; Greer Twiss - fifteen recent Bronzes, exhibition catalogue 1965; Francis pound - signatures of place paintings & Placenames, Govett Brewster 1991; John Panting - sculpture prints and drawings, Manawatu Art gallery, circa 1970's; Auckland University press - catalogue of publications 2010; Andrew…
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A collection of New Zealand Art publications, including: Kate Newby - money for Nothing; Kate Newby - holding onto it only makes you sick, Creative New Zealand 2008, Cd enclosed in back pocket; Simon Denny - old things 2006, letter to Sue Crockford from Michael Lett loosely enclosed; Editor Sarah Hopkinson - Gambia castle exhibition catalogue 2008.
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A collection of Julian Schnabel publications, including: Arbeiten auf papier 1975 -1988; Munich 1989; exhibition catalogue Pace gallery Ny 1986; the aluminium paintings, Tokyo 1984; Reconocimientos, catalogue, Kunsthalle Basel 1989; paintings 1975 - 1987, white Chapel [1988]; Angelo D'Oro, Rome 1985.
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A collection of Richard Killeen publications, including: Destruction of the circle, Peter McLeavey gallery 1990, workshop press [2 copies]; age of fishes, Fisher gallery, 1991; Margaret Orbell & Richard Killeen - the Presence of the Dew, workshop press 1996, inscribed Francis pound; C. M. Beadnell - objects and Images from the cult of the hook, foreword by Richard Killeen, workshop press 1996.
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A collection of Art Journals, including: and Journal, no. 1 2 & 4, published in Wellington 1983 - 1985; high Tide - new Currents in Art from Australia and New Zealand text in Polish and English, published in 2006 [2 issues]; centre of Attraction, 8th Baltic Triennial of international Art [2 issues].
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A collection of four Art and photography books, including Laura Noble, the Art of collecting photography, Ava Publishing 2006, hard cover, Dj; Pamela Roberts, a century of colour from the autochrome to the digital age, Carlton 2007, hard cover, Dj; Defining contemporary Art - 25 Years in 200 pivotal artworks, Phaidon 2011, hard cover, Dj; M. O'Mahoney - world Art: the Essential illustrated history.
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A collection of contemporary art books, including: Laurie Ann Farrell - looking both Ways. Art of the contemporary African Diaspora, Snoeck 2004, hard cover, Dj; Rachel Kent - masquerade. Representation and the self in contemporary Art, Mca 2006, soft cover; Cornelia Homburg - German Art Now, Merrell 2003, hard cover, Dj; Jens Hoffman - ice cream, contemporary Art in culture, Phaidon 2007, hard cover.
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Four photography books, including: Gianni Mercurio [editor], David Lachapelle, Giunti 2007, text in Italian and English, soft cover; Susan bright - Art photography Now, Thames and Hudson 2007; Gerry Badger - the Genius of photography. How photography has changed our lives, Ouadrille 2007, soft cover; Jan Micoch - Frantisek Drtikol 1901 -1914, Kant 1999, hard cover.
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