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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 14 September 2022  |  Sydney

Lot 71
Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927

hand–coloured woodcut

11.0 x 11.0 cm (image)
23.0 x 17.0 cm (sheet)



Estimate:
$8,000 – $12,000


Lot sold: $16,568 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927

hand–coloured woodcut

11.0 x 11.0 cm (image)
23.0 x 17.0 cm (sheet)

signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image: Australian flowers Margaret Preston

Provenance

Private collection, Sydney
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 16 May 2006, lot 72
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 29 (another example)

Literature

Butler, R., and Deutscher, C., A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, cat. 29, p. 21 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 120, p. 131 (illus., another example)