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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
• Sale Date:
  02 Dec 2015 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  2
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  A Mile Out Of Alice Springs, 1949
  colour stencil on black card; edition: 3
  25.0 x 31.0 cm
  signed with initials lower right: M.P.
• Provenance:
  Ure Smith collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Gouache Stencils by Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, September 1949; 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; Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring in 2006 to, Ian Potter Centre, National Ga
• References:
  Butel, E., Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, p. 92, cat. P.61 ( illus. another example); Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, p. 278, cat. 359 (illus., another example); Edwards, D., ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s – 1950s', Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p. 241 (illus. another example)
• Notes:
  Another example from this edition is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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