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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
• Sale Date:
  02 Dec 2015 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  4
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Waratahs Etc, 1949
  colour stencil on black card
  37.0 x 29.0 cm
  signed with initials in image lower right: M.P.
• Provenance:
  Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney; Thence by descent; Ure Smith collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  Margaret Preston Survey (Nine Paintings and Thirteen Prints by Margaret Preston), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 June – 16 September 1959 <br>Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986 (another example) State of the Waratah, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1 September – 8 October 2000 (another example)
• References:
  Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, pp. 270-271, cat. 351 (illus., another example)
• Notes:
  The only other recorded example from this edition is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. “The simplicity of the stencil cuttings and the traditional way of colouring, which leaves a large section of the black background untouched, suggests that this is Preston’s earliest stencil print in this series.” – Butler, R., p. 271
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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