b'84Ex 534534 535JOSEPH GREENBERGS AUTOBIOGRAPHY: JOSEPH GREENBERGS TRAVEL DIARIES, Five volumes, with 100s of handwritten pages, illustratedNOTEBOOKS, SKETCH-BOOKS, ETC.:by hand as well as with numerous photographs, copies,Italy and Greece 1970reproductions of artworks, etc., being volumes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 ofWhitsunday Passage 1985an incomplete project Joe titled You should have such a life. Alice Springs, the Kimberley, Darwin 1986Volume 2: 1942 - 1951: The War Years - Back at Art School - Flinders Island 1986-87The Herald and Womans Day - My future wife. Cairns, Cape York, Thursday Island 1987Volume 3: 1951 - 1958: Marriage - Womans Day - Freelancing -Hume Highway, Sydney 1988Mt.Eliza - Leaving Australia for Europe - England. England, Norway, Northern Ireland 1990Gippsland, Wilsons Prom 1991Volume 4: 1958 - 1959: London - West Country - Wales -Queensland, 1992Belgium - Holland - Scotland. Flinders Island 1993Volume 5: 1959 - 1960: Leaving London - A year in Scandinavia. Flinders Island 2003 & Norfolk Island 2004Volume 6: 1960 - 1969: Back in London - Holidays in France,Norfolk Island 2004 and 2006Germany, Spain, Italy, Sicily - Working in New York - Stillcomprising of 100s of pages of handwritten observations, Collecting - Working in Pakistan - USA - Morocco, Hollandanecdotes, remembered conversations, jokes, drawings, - Home to Melbourne to see mum - work in Switzerland -watercolour sketches, photographs and philosophical musings. Goodbye to mum. (7 volumes of various sizes).Full of wonderful stories about art and artists, cathedrals and$5001,000friends, observations and illustrations. The voice of this fascinating man and his love of life, people and creativity simply536burst from the pages. AN UNFINISHED PROJECT:After I had given her a cuddle [Joes mother in hospital] - sheClearly inspired by his love of Ronald Searles books, Joe had proudly turned to all and sundry and said in a slightly triumphantdone a considerable amount of work towards a book of his voicethis is my son JoeHe has just flown in from Londonown. It was to be titled Its Raining Cats and Dogs and this lot and hes got Portnoys Complaint!. comprises the volume into which he placed his finished artwork, She thought Portnoys Complaint described a young man withwith each double page spread depicting his quirky interpretation bohemian attributes ; after all I had arrived with a beard. of an English word or phrase that includes Cat or Dog. Do you know what Portnoys Complaint is all about? ISome examples include Catacomb, Dogs Body, Dog-spluttered to my mum. Collar and Category. In all, there are 20 illustrations.And before she could say anything I saidIts about a young$200400Jewish bloke who masturbates in all different ways because ofa protective and domineering Jewish mother!My mum looked rather hurt and resentful exclaimingI dont want to know about that!$5001,000'