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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
• Sale Date:
  02 Dec 2015 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  3
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Aboriginal Art, 1949
  colour stencil on black card
  24.0 x 32.0 cm
• Provenance:
  Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney; Thence by descent; Ure Smith collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 May – 22 July 1980 (another example); Margaret Preston: Art and Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring in 2006 to: Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (label attached verso)
• References:
  North, I., The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1980, p. 57, cat. P.37 (illus.); Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, p. 277, cat. 358 (illus., another example); Edwards, D., ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s – 1950s', Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p. 249 (illus.)
• Notes:
  The only other recorded example of this stencil, in different colours, is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra inscribed, ‘monotype’.
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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