Important Fine Art + Indigenous Art - 29 November 2017 | Melbourne
Lot 3
Margaret Preston
(1875 – 1963)
STILL LIFE – BASKET, 1925
hand-coloured woodcut
19.0 x 19.0 cm
Estimate:
$12,000 – 18,000
Lot sold: $14,640 (inc. BP)
Lot Details
Description
Margaret Preston
(1875 – 1963)
STILL LIFE – BASKET, 1925
hand-coloured woodcut
19.0 x 19.0 cm
signed with initials in image lower right: MP
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image: 5th proof Margaret Preston / 1925 / Still Life
Provenance
Private collection, Melbourne by 1967
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 15 (another example)
Literature
Art in Australia, 3rd series, no. 22, December 1927, pl. 31 (illus., another example as ‘Basket of Fruit’)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 63, p. 94 (illus., another example)