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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Apr 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  82
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Red Bow, 1925
  hand-coloured woodcut
  24.5 x 18.5 cm
  signed with initials in image lower left: MP; signed, dated, numbered, and inscribed below image: Native Flowers / 2nd proof – 1925 / Margaret Preston
  Related Work: Another example of this print is held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
• Provenance:
  Private collection, New South Wales; Thence by descent; Private collection, New South Wales
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 16 (another example); Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat. 47 (another example); Exhibition of Prints, European, Australian and Japanese, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, December 1927 (another example, as ‘The Red Bow’); Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Art Society of Tasmania, Hobart Town Hall, 14-23 February 1928, cat. 138 (another example); The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 May – 22 July 1980, and touring, cat. P17 (another example, dated as c.1927); 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) REFERENCES: Art in Australia, Margaret Preston Number, Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney, 3rd series, no. 22, December 1927 (illus. cover, and pl. 37, another example, as ‘The Red Bow’); North, I., The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980, p. 54 (illus., another example); Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 104, p.120 (illus., another example); Edwards, D., Peel, R. and Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 77 (illus. another example), 80, 82, 114, 285
• Estimate:
  A$18,000 - 24,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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