Peter Walker Fine Art

Specialises in the sale of early Australian paintings and items of historical interest as well as contemporary art. Clients include major regional and state galleries, libraries and private collectors from around Australia and overseas.

Helpmann Academy, Chair National Museum of Australia, Council member Approved Valuer Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program Peter Walker 101 Walkerville Terrace Walkerville SA 5081 08 8344 4607 0418 552 548 info@peterwalker.com.au www.peterwalker.com.au

Martin Sharp (Australian 1942 - 2013)

Adelaide Festival, Pavilion of Death Dreams and Desire, 1982

Screenprint on waterproofed linen. (H240 x W120cm) Monogrammed in the print. $3,850

Martin Sharp was one of Australia’s greatest pop artist from the early 1960’s with an international reputation, not least for his contribution to the covers of London and Australia’s OZ magazine. The Adelaide Festival commissioned Sharp to design the 1982 Festival poster and these large screen-prints were used as street banners at each for the 1982 Adelaide Festival venues. This banner is of particular importance as it was used at the central location and pavilion for the Festival beside the Adelaide Festival Centre. These artworks were hand-printed and very few of this large format are still in existence. There is one in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. Very rare. A very rare 2nd Century AD Gandhara sculpture of Yakshi. Yakshi is the female attendant of Kybera, the Hindu god of wealth. Height: 29 cm. Exhibited: Pakistani Embassy, Canberra, 1969. Illustrated: A Perspective in History and Art from Ancient Times. Pakistan, 1969, p.36. $2,250

Two drawings from The Museo Cartaceo of Cassiano Dal

Pozzo (1588 – 1637) Both drawings, Rome. c. 1600. Impeccable provenance including Pope Clement XI, King George III and many prominent collectors. Full details please contact us. Framed together and tipped onto the sheet by King George III librarian Richard Dalton. Total sheet size (380 x 480mm).

$7,800

The left-hand drawing is Italian, Rome, late 16th/early 17th century: Study of a classical relief sculpture of a priest holding a cornucopia. Pen and brown ink with grey wash over black chalk laid down within double ink mounting lines, and again laid down. Inscribed on the old mount ‘Roma in Aedibus Verospis’ indicating that the depiction is of a relief in the Palazzo Verospi in the Via del Corso in Rome. The palace was stripped of its ancient art in the early 19th century after it was sold to the Banco Marignoli for offices

The right hand drawing is of the Head of the same relief Black chalk & grey wash, with traces of old inventory number no. 467

A Rare 12th Century Khmer stone torso of Vishnu. 52cm (66cm incl plinth) Provenance: David Jones Gallery, Sydney - Indian Thai and Khmer Sculpture, 1968, Catalogue No.47, Illustrated. Purchased from the above by James Fairfax, AC and listed and illustrated in his personal ring-bound catalogue as item number 4.

$18,500

The Foot Bones from an Extinct New Zealand Moa. Mid 15th Century AD or earlier. With original box and a wonderful provenance including a 1930’s letter and photo from a London rare animal dealer discussing these bones. For the collector who has just about everything! H32cm.

$6,500