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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art including works from the collections of Joan Clemenger AO + Peter Clemenger AO Reg Grundy AC OBE + Joy
• Sale Date:
  14 Sep 2022 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  72
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 - 1963)
  Sturt's Desert Pea, 1925
  hand–coloured woodcut, edition: 25/50
  18.5 x 24.5 cm (image); 26.5 x 29.0 cm (sheet)
  signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image:; 25the proof Sturt’s pea etc. Margaret Preston; signed with initials in image lower left: MP.
  Related Work/s: Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• Provenance:
  Private collection, Sydney; Sotheby's, Melbourne, 16 May 2006, lot 73; Private collection, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 20 (another example); Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Sydney, September 1926, cat. 66 (another example)
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: Woman's World, Sydney, vol. 6, no. 1, January 1926, p. 64 (illus., another example, as 'N.S.W. Wild Flowers'); The Home, Sydney, vol. 8, no. 8, August 1927, p. 26 (illus., another example); Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, No. 22 (Margaret Preston Number), December 1927, p. 76, pl. 41 (illus., another example, as 'Australian Wild Flowers'); Art in Australia, Sydney, No. 57, 15 November 1934, p. 90 (illus., another example); Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 88, p. 109 (illus., another example)
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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