Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art - 2 December 2015 | Sydney
Lot 6
Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927
hand-coloured woodcut
11.0 x 11.0 cm
Estimate:
$5,000 – $7,000
Lot sold: $11,590 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927
hand-coloured woodcut
11.0 x 11.0 cm
signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image
tipped into deluxe edition of Art in Australia, Margaret Preston, No. 22, December 1927.
(Thirty two copies of the deluxe edition were printed; twenty five of these were for sale.)
Provenance
Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
Thence by decent
Ure Smith collection, Sydney
Exhibited
A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 29 (another example)
Literature
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, p. 131, cat. 120 (illus., another example)