Important Australian + International Fine Art - 2 May 2012 | Sydney
Lot 59
Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN GUM BLOSSOMS, 1928
hand-coloured woodcut
27.5 x 26.5 cm
Estimate:
$8,000 - 12,000
Lot sold: $26,400 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN GUM BLOSSOMS, 1928
hand-coloured woodcut
27.5 x 26.5 cm
signed and inscribed with title below image
Provenance
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Australian Society of Artists, July 1930, no. 13 (as 'Gum blossom', another example)
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1985, cat. 19 (as 'Gum blossom', c1928, another example)
Literature
Art in Australia, 3rd Series, no. 26, December 1928, p. 121 (illus., another example)
The Home, Sydney, December 1928, p. 25 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raissoné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, p. 135, pl. 124 (illus., another example)