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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art featuring The Peter and Renate Nahum Collection of Aboriginal Art
• Sale Date:
  15 Jul 2020 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  44
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Dahlia And Sunflower, 1933
  hand-coloured woodcut
  30.5 x 30.5 cm
  signed with initials in image lower right: MP; signed and inscribed with title below image: Sunflowers + dahlias Margaret Preston
  Related Work: Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• Provenance:
  Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane; Private collection, Queensland, acquired from the above in 1984; Estate of the above, Queensland
• References:
  "Art in Australia", Sydney, Third series, no. 50, June 1933, p. 48 (as ‘Sunflowers and Dahlias’); Butler, R., "The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné", Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 170, p. 166 (illus., another example)
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: "Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc. by Margaret Preston (and others)," The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 12 September 1933, cat. 14 (another example, as ‘Sunflowers etc.’); "Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts & Pencil drawings", The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 12 – 24 December 1933, cat. 178 (another example); "Exhibition of Etchings", "Woodcuts etc.," The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 9 – 24 December 1936, cat. 150 (another example, as ‘Dahlia and Sunflowers’); "Society of Artists", Parbury House, Brisbane, 19 May – 5 June 1937, cat. 75 (another example, as ‘Sunflower’)
• Estimate:
  A$12,000 - 16,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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