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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
• Sale Date:
  02 Dec 2015 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  7
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Flowers In Jug, c.1929
  hand-coloured woodcut
  28.0 x 20.5 cm
  signed below image: Margaret Preston
  tipped into the limited edition of Margaret Preston: Recent Paintings 1929, edited by S. Ure Smith and L. Gellert (Sydney: Art in Australia), 1929. Book: edition number 185 / 250 accompanies this lot. (2)
• Provenance:
  Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney; Thence by descent; Ure Smith collection, Sydney
• References:
  Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 137, p. 143 (illus., another example)
• Notes:
  Each edition of Margaret Preston: Recent Paintings 1929, was accompanied by a hand-coloured woodcut of either Flowers in Jug, c.1929 or Mosman Bridge, c.1927. It is not known if the full edition was completed.
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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