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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  18 Nov 2020 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  4
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875-1963)
  Rock Lilies 1932
  oil on canvas
  45.5 x 53 cm
  signed and dated 'Margaret Preston / -32' lower left
• Provenance:
  Private Collection; Christie's Australia; Gould Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney, acquired from the above in 2000; Private Collection, Queensland, acquired from the above; Private Collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  The Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Contemporary Group, The Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 2-14 November 1932, no. 13, 10 gns
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: 'The "Moderns": "Contemporary's" Show', The Sun, Sydney, 2 November 1932, p. 10; Colin Simpson, 'Spring and Sawmills: "Contemporaries" New Show', The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 4 November 1932, p. 9; Roger Butler, The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, p. 312; Roger Butler, The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné (rev. ed.), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005, p. 346; Denise Mimmochi, Margaret Preston: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Monotypes and Ceramics, CD-ROM, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, illustrated
• Estimate:
  A$80,000 - 100,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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