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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Fine Art
• Sale Date:
  03 May 2023 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  46
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 - 1963)
  Brachychiton Discolor, c.1931
  hand–coloured woodcut
  46.5 x 45.0 cm
  edition: 2nd proof of unknown edition size; signed with initials lower right: MP; signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: Brachychiton 2nd proof Margaret Preston 
• Provenance:
  Private collection, New South Wales; Private collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above c.1970
• Exhibited:
  Society of Artists, Special Exhibition, David Jones’ Restaurant Annexe, Sydney, 14 – 28 May 1931, cat. 1 (as ‘Bracychilon [sic.] discolour [sic.]’) 
• References:
  Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 154, p. 158 (as ‘Brachychiton discolor, c.1931); Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery & Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2005, cat. 154, p. 167 (as ‘Brachychiton discolor, c.1931’)
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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