Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art - 29 November 2017 | Melbourne
Lot 4
Margaret Preston
(1875 – 1963)
PANDANUS, ELSEY FALLS, 1946
colour monotype
30.5 x 34.0 cm
Estimate:
$20,000 – 30,000
Lot sold: $24,400 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Margaret Preston
(1875 – 1963)
PANDANUS, ELSEY FALLS, 1946
colour monotype
30.5 x 34.0 cm
signed and inscribed with title below image: Pandanus, Elsy [sic] Falls. N.T. Monotype Margaret Preston
Provenance
Mrs E. de Mestre, by 1949
Private collection, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Drawings, Sculpture Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society [Fourth State Exhibition], Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 6 – 23 March 1948, cat. 60 (another example)
Literature
Ure Smith, S., Margaret Preston’s monotypes, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1949, p. 66 (as ‘Elsey Falls, N.T.’)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 313, p. 250