Swiss Artists in Australia 1777-1991.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(Sydney): Art Gallery of New South Wales (1991). 4to. Orig. illust.wrapper. (112pp.). Profusely illust. most in col. many full-page. 1st edition. Fully signed by Sali Herman. NOTE: Sali Herman is celebrated for his beautiful and mysterious images of the urban Australian landscape. Coming to Australia in 1937 after travelling through Europe North and South America and Africa Herman studied alongside artists such as Russell Drysdale and Peter Purves Smith at George Bell's Studio in Melbourne. His iconographic terrace houses and narrow lanes are intimate evocative visions that capture the humanity of inner-Sydney.