This painting depicts the writer Peter Carey reading his prize-winning novel Illywacker, and the artist herself, inside a house designed for them by acclaimed Australian architect Richard Leplastrier. Signed and dated on verso.

Artworks includes paintings, sketches, and drawings. Artwork in folders has not been counted.

Handmade and handpainted artist folder with 'Coloured paper' written on cover. Teaching material [of Vida Lahey] consisting of colour, and black and white reproduction prints, postcards, Christmas cards (some addressed to Vida Lahey), newspaper and periodical cuttings from the 1940s to the 1960s. Included with this file is: Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 'Untitled', print numbered 348 of 400, 1910s?, 38 x 28 cm