Important Fine Art and Aboriginal Art - 30 November 2016 | Sydney
Lot 91
Margaret Preston
(1875 – 1963)
BASKET OF AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1925
hand-coloured woodcut
13.0 x 13.0 cm
Estimate:
$8,000 – 12,000
Lot sold: $19,520 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Margaret Preston
(1875 – 1963)
BASKET OF AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1925
hand-coloured woodcut
13.0 x 13.0 cm
signed with initials in image lower left: M.P
signed and inscribed below image
Provenance
Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
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
Art in Australia, no. 22 December 1927, pl. 35, p. 71 (illus., another example. As ‘Basket of Australian Wild Flowers’)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 94, p. 112 (illus., another example)