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Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art - 2 December 2015  |  Sydney

Lot 4
Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
WARATAHS ETC, 1949

colour stencil on black card

37.5 x 30.0 cm



Estimate:
$15,000 – $20,000


Lot sold: $48,800 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
WARATAHS ETC, 1949

colour stencil on black card

37.5 x 30.0 cm

signed with initials in image lower right: M.P.

Provenance

Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
Thence by descent 
Ure Smith collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Margaret Preston Survey (Nine Paintings and Thirteen Prints by Margaret Preston), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 June – 16 September 1959 
Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986 (another example)
State of the Waratah, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1 September – 8 October 2000 (another example) 

Literature

Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, pp. 270-271, cat. 351 (illus., another example)