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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  04 May 2022 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  2
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 - 1963)
  Pink Jug (Anemone), 1925
  hand–coloured woodcut, edition: 20th proof 
  38.5 x 36.5 cm (image); 45.5 x 41.5 cm (sheet)
  signed with initials in image, lower right: M.P.; signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: 20th proof Anemone Margaret Preston
• Provenance:
  Mr Alan Greenway, Australia and USA; Thence by descent; Private collection, California, USA
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 1 (another example); Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat. 56 (another example, as 'Anemones') ; The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980 and touring (another example, as 'Anemones'); Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986 (another example, as ‘Anemones’); Australian Paintings 1848 – 1967, Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney, 15 November – 18 December 1988, cat. 11 (illus., another example); Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 September – 13 October 2002 (another example); Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005; and touring (another example); Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013 (another example); O'Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 12 October 2016 – 19 February 2018; Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 11 March – 11 June 2017; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1 July – 2 October 2017 (another example, as ‘Anemones’). REFERENCES: Ure Smith, S., Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, no. 22, December 1927, pl. 30 (illus.) (another example, as 'Anemones'); Women's World, vol. 8, no. 12, December 1928 (illus., cover) & vol. 9, no. 1, February 1929, p. 108 (illus., another example, as 'Chinese Vase'); North, I., The art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1980, cat. P.9, p. 53 (illus., another example); Butel, M., Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Penguin Books & Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1985, cat. P.6, pp. 32 (illus.), 87 (another example, as 'Anemones'); Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonne, Australian National Gallery & Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2005, cat. 108, p. 134 (illus., another example); Edwards, D., Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 60 (illus), 82, 105, 285 (another example); Mimmocchi, D., Sydney moderns: art for a new world, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 203 (illus., another example), 314, 323; Harding, L., and Mimmocchi, D., O'Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2016, cat. 34, pp. 126 (illus.), 194 (illus., another example)
• Estimate:
  A$25,000 - 35,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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