The Art of Ivor Hele. With Preface by Sir Will Ashton [and Biographical Note by V.M. Branson]
Adelaide, Rigby, 1966.
Quarto, 24 pages plus 83 plates (42 in colour).
Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine.
On the front flyleaf is a gift inscription 'To Sir Alick ... many happy returns for your birthday' from Walter Wotzke and his family. The book was a present to Sir Alexander Russell Downer (1910-1981) on his seventieth birthday; he died less than a year later. Walter Wotzke (1917-1996) was a prominent local artist, responsible for the restoration of the Hahndorf Academy after saving it from demolition in the late 1960s.
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