Auction Times:

Session 1: (Lots 1–355)
Tuesday 29 October 2024, 12pm (AEDT)

Session 2: (Lots 356–1076)
Wednesday 30 October 2024, 12pm (AEDT)

Contents

001-164 The Eve Glenn Poster Collection
166-201 The Beatles in Australia, 1964
202-1076  Cameras & Photographic Equipment

THE EVE GLENN POSTER COLLECTION:

After finishing 4 years of Fine Art Painting at RMIT in the early 60’s, Eve had three children. She was involved in the social/ cultural movements of the times such as folk music, the peace movement, anti conscription, anti Vietnam war, Feminism, Land Rights, Rock-and- Roll, Punk. Posters and poster making were an exciting part of these activities. People communicated with posters, hand bills amd hand made cards. Sometimes Eve managed to save a poster.

“There was excitement, inventiveness, humour and hope. We thought we were changing the world by the way we lived.. Exploring family and gender roles and the myriad of creative pursuits in theatre, writing, circus, bands, photography, street art, screenprinting and more.”

Eve found her way into the workforce via an interest in theatre, especially backstage work at the Pram Factory Theatre in the 70’s and became involved in the community theatre wing of the Australian Performing Group, painting with Circus Oz at its foundation, and playing electric guitar with The Wimmins Circus. She went on to play in the women’s bands Toxic Shock and Barbies Dead. This was a time when some women were entering new territory such as trades, making movies, playing rock music etc.

Eve has spent her working life freelancing as a scenic artist/backdrop, set, props, floors, painter for TV, theatre, circus, film, also for the building, entertainment, visual merchandising and display industries as a designer, maker, painter of parade banners, floats and painted trams.

She was also at the forefront of developing large and small scale community mural projects Australia wide as well as various corporate commissions.

Eve has exhibited work in numerous exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney and has work in the Totoro Collection and The Harding Collection.
(Lots 1 – 164)

THE BEATLES IN AUSTRALIA, 1964

Victor Clarence Grimmett (1923 – 2017), the photographer in the right pace at the right time.

Vic Grimmett, already a well-known Adelaide freelance photographer, was one of the lucky few to gain access to The Beatles during their tumultuous two-day visit to the city in early June 1964. He was present at the airport when they landed, during the motorcade into town, the press conferences and the concerts.

Five of his photographs were purchased by The Australian Women’s Weekly; the rest languished in a cupboard in Vic’s study, until just before his retirement, in 1995, when he rediscovered them and made the prints you will find in the following listing. He had them mounted and framed, and proudly signed each of his works in the margin of the mount below the image.

These original signed images were shown once again, when Vic published a book about his career, “Confessions of an Adelaide Flasher” [2007, Adelaide, Nexus Print Solutions], and they were exhibited at an exhibition which accompanied the launch of the book.

For the first time, Beatles collectors in Australia and around the world, have the opportunity to purchase these original photographs, (Lots 167 – 197) made and signed by the photographer who was with them at the very dawn of their  remarkable, history making careers. Finally,

Lots 198 – 201, are four original prints of Vic Grimmett’s, which capture the beauty and power of Rudolf Nureyev’s dancing during his performances in Adelaide in March 1970.
(Lots 166 – 201)

CAMERAS & PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT

Stereo-photographs & Viewers, Magic Lanterns & Slides, Early Microscopes and other equipment mainly from the collection of the late Adrian Elshout of Highton
(Lots 202 – 1076)

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