Important Australian + International Fine Art - 28 August 2019 | Sydney
hand-coloured woodcut
27.5 x 27.5 cm
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Margaret Preston
hand-coloured woodcut
27.5 x 27.5 cm
signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image: flannel flowers etc woodcut Margaret Preston
Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in June 1974
Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, Art Society of Tasmania, Town Hall, Hobart, 14 – 23 February 1928, cat. 136 (another example)
Margaret Preston Woodblocks, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1936, cat. 14 (another example)
Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc., The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 9 – 24 December 1936, cat. 147 (another example)
Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 27 (another example, as ‘Flannel Flowers etc., c.1926’, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 21)
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986, cat. P.33 (another example)
The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August – 18 October 1987, cat. 38 (another example)
Art in Australia, Sydey, Third series, no. 66, February 1937 (illus. front cover, another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 123, p. 134 (illus., another example)
Butel, E., Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, exhibition catalogue, Penguin Books, Victoria, 1985, p. 89