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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  28 Aug 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  11
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Mosman Bridge, c.1927
  hand-coloured woodcut
  25.0 x 18.5 cm
  signed with initials in image lower right: MP; signed below image: Margaret Preston
  EXHIBITED: "A Survey of Australian Relief Prints", Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 28 (another example, dated as c.1926); "The Alan Renshaw Bequest", S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney, 9 January – 25 February 1979, cat. 47 (another example, illus. on exhibition catalogue front cover); "The Art of Margaret Preston", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980 and touring, cat. 13 (another example, dated as c.1925); "Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986, cat. P14 (another example); "The Prints of Margaret Preston", Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August – 18 October 1987, cat. 36 (another example); "A Selection of 19th and 20th Century Australian Art", Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 23 November – 8 December 1989, cat. 34 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue); "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); "Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013, (another example) REFERENCES: Draffin, N., "Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s", Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, p. 35 (illus., another example, as ‘Mosman Bridge (large) N.S.W., c.1926’); Deutscher, C., and Butler, R., "A Survey of Australian Relief Prints", Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, cat. 28, p. 21 (illus., another example, dated as c.1926); North, I. (ed.), "The Art of Margaret Preston", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980, cat. P.13, pp. 36 (illus. another example, dated as c.1925), 53; Butel, E., "Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement", exhibition catalogue, Penguin Books, Victoria, 1985, p. 87; Butler, R., "The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné", Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 113, p. 127 (illus., another example); Edwards, D., Peel, R., and Mimmocchi, D., "Margaret Preston", exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 82 (illus., another example), 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. 162 (illus., another example), 315; Harding, L., "Margaret Preston. Recipes for Food and Art," The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2016, p. 105 (illus., another example)
• Provenance:
  Original Art Auctions, Melbourne; Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in October 1969
• Notes:
  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$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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