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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
• Sale Date:
  02 Dec 2015 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  6
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Australian Flowers, 1927
  hand-coloured woodcut; edition: 28/32
  11.0 x 11.0 cm
  signed with initials in image lower left: MP; signed and inscribed with title below image
  tipped into deluxe edition of Art in Australia, Margaret Preston, No. 22, December 1927. Book: edition number 28 / 32 accompanies this lot. (Thirty two copies of the deluxe edition were printed; twenty five of these were for sale.) (2)
• Provenance:
  Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney; Thence by descent; Ure Smith collection, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 29 (another example)
• References:
  Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, p. 131, cat. 120 (illus., another example)
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 7,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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