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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  03 May 2023 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  45
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 - 1963)
  Circular Quay, 1925
  hand-coloured woodcut, edition: 6/50
  24.5 x 24.5 cm (image) 27.0 x 26.0 cm (sight)
  signed with initials in image lower left: M.P.; signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image:; 6th Proof – Circular Quay – 25 / Margaret Preston
  EXHIBITED: Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, The New Gallery, Melbourne, 24 November – 5 December 1925, cat. 9 (another example); Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat. 57 (another example); Australian Painter– Etcher’s Society Annual Exhibition, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 8 – 23 June 1928, cat. 233 (another example); Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrations, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 21 March – 3 April 1932, cat. 143 (another example) ; Work by Four Artists, 52a Collins St, Melbourne, November 1932, cat. 12 (another example); Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc. by Margaret Preston [and others], The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 12 September 1933, cat. 17 (another example) ; Exhibition of Etchings, pencil drawings and woodcuts, The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, May 1934, cat. 256 (another example); The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980 and touring, cat. 10 (another example); The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August – 18 October 1987, cat. 19 (another example); Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 September – 13 October 2002 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue) ; Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring (another example); Destination Sydney, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 11 December 2015 – 21 February 2016 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, another example); O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 12 October 2016 – 11 February 2017, and touring, cat. 35 (another example). REFERENCES: Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd series, no. 17, September 1926, p. 48 (illus., as ‘Circular Quay, Sydney’, another example); Australia Beautiful, (The Home Easter Pictorial), Sydney, 1928 (illus. cover, another example); Draffin, N., Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, p. 50 (dated as c.1925); North, I. (ed.), The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980, cat. P.10, pp. 19 (illus., another example), 53; Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 84, p. 105 (illus., another example); Butel, E., Margaret Preston, Editions Tom Thompson, Sydney, 1995, pl. 11, p. 31 (illus., another example), 87; Edwards, D., Peel, R. and Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 80, 92 (illus. another example), 285; Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, revised edition 2005, cat. 84, p. 117 (illus. another example); Harding, L., and Mimmocchi, D., (eds), O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2016, cat. 35, pp. 126 (illus., another example), 194. RELATED WORK/S: Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
• Provenance:
  Private collection, New South Wales; Private collection, Western Australia, acquired from the above in 2022
• Estimate:
  A$25,000 - 35,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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