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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Works of Art from the Estate of the Late James O. Fairfax AC
• Sale Date:
  30 Aug 2017 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  34
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Circular Quay, Sydney, 1925
  hand-coloured woodcut
  24.0 x 24.5 cm
  signed with initials in image lower left: M.P. ; signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title under image lower left: Circular Quay Sydney - N S W Margaret Preston / 1st Proof 1925
  EXHIBITED: Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, The New Gallery, Melbourne 24 November – 5 December 1925, cat. 9 (another example) ; Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat. 57 (another example) ; Australian Painter- Etcher’s Society Annual Exhibition, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 8 – 23 June 1928, cat. 233 (another example) ; Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrations, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 21 March – 3 April 1932, cat. 143 (another example) ; Work by Four Artists, 52a Collins St, Melbourne, November 1932, cat. 12 (another example) ; Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc. by Margaret Preston [and others], The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 12 September 1933, cat. 17 (another example) ; Exhibition of Etchings, pencil drawing and woodcuts, The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, May 1934, cat. cat. 256 (another example) ; The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980 and touring, cat. 10 (another example) ; The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August – 18 October 1987, cat. 19 (another example) ; Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 September – 13 October 2002 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue) ; Margaret Preston, 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/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (another example) ; Destination Sydney, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 11 December 2015 – 21 February 2016 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, another example) ; O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 12 October 2016 – 11 February 2017; Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 11 March – 11 June 2017; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 July – 2 October, cat. 35 (another example)
• Provenance:
  Private collection ; Christie’s, Sydney, 14 November 1988, lot 125; The Estate of the late James O. Fairfax AC, New South Wales
• Notes:
  REFERENCES: Art in Australia, 3rd series, no.17, 1926, p. 48 (illus., as ‘Circular Quay, Sydney’, another example) ; Australia Beautiful, (The Home Easter Pictorial), Sydney, 1928, (illus. cover, another example); Draffin, N., Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, p. 50 (dated as c. 1925); North, I. (ed.), The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980, cat. P.10, pp. 19 (illus., another example), 53; Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 84, p. 105 (illus., another example) ; Butel, E., Margaret Preston, Editions Tom Thompson, Sydney, 1995, pl.11, p. 31 (illus., another example), 87; Edwards, D., Peel, R. and Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 80, 92 (illus. another example), 285; Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, revised edition 2005, cat. 84, p. 117 (illus. another example) ; Harding, L., and Mimmocchi, D., (eds), O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2016, cat. 35, pp. 126 (illus.), 194 RELATED WORK/S: Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
• Estimate:
  A$20,000 - 30,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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