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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  28 Aug 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  10
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  The Bridge From North Shore, c.1932 (Also Known As ‘Sydney Bridge’)
  hand-coloured woodcut
  19.0 x 23.0 cm
  signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: 3rd print Bridge from N. Shore Margaret Preston
  EXHIBITED: "Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrations", Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 21 March – 3 April 1932, cat. 145 (another example); "Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc. by Margaret Preston", The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, September 1933, cat. 24 (another example, as ‘Bridge from North Shore’); "Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986, cat. P.25 (another example, as ‘Sydney Bridge’); "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 (another example, as ‘Sydney Bridge’); "Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013, (another example); "O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith. Making Modernism", Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 12 October 2016 – 19 February 2017 and touring, cat. 51b (another example, as ‘Sydney Bridge’) REFERENCES: Butel, E., "Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement", exhibition catalogue, Penguin Books, Victoria, 1985, p. 88; Butler, R., "The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné", Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 158, p. 159 (illus., another example); Edwards, D., Peel, R., and Mimmocchi, D., "Margaret Preston", exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 83, 93 (illus., another example), 260, 286; Edwards, D., and Mimmocchi, D. (eds.)," Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World," exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 107 (illus., another example), 315; "O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith. Making Modernism," exhibition catalogue, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp. 127 (illus., another example), 196 (illus., another example)
• Provenance:
  probably: Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne; Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne
• Notes:
  Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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