Lot #3 - Margaret Preston
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Auction House:Deutscher and Hackett
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Sale Name:Important Fine Art + Important Indigenous Art
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Sale Date:29 Nov 2017 ~ 7pm
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Lot #:3
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Lot Description:Margaret Preston
(1875 – 1963)
Still Life – Basket, 1925
hand-coloured woodcut; edition of 50
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
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Exhibited:Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 15 (another example)
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References: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)
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Estimate:A$12,000 - 18,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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