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Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art - 2 December 2015  |  Sydney

Lot 3
Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
ABORIGINAL ART, 1949

colour stencil on black card

24.0 x 32.0 cm



Estimate:
$10,000 – $15,000


Lot sold: $23,180 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
ABORIGINAL ART, 1949

colour stencil on black card

24.0 x 32.0 cm

Provenance

Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
Thence by descent
 Ure Smith collection, Sydney

Exhibited

The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 May – 22 July 1980 (another example)
 Margaret Preston: Art and Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring in 2006 to: Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (label attached verso)
 

Literature

North, I., The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1980, p. 57, cat. P.37 (illus.)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, p. 277, cat. 358 (illus., another example)
Edwards, D., Margaret Preston, ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s - 1950s', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p. 249 (illus.)