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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  28 Aug 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  12
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Dry River Crossing, N.T., 1946
  colour monotype
  20.5 x 25.5 cm
  signed and inscribed with title below image: Dry River Crossing N.T. Margaret Preston
  REFERENCES: Ure Smith, S. (ed.), "Margaret Preston’s Monotypes", Ure Smith, Sydney, 1949, p. 66 (as ‘Dry River Bed’); Butler, R., "The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné," Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 314, p. 250 (as ‘Dry river bed, Flinders Ranges, 1946’); Edwards, D., Peel, R., and Mimmocchi, D., "Margaret Preston", exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 231 (illus.), 232, 285 (as ‘c.1947’); "Margaret Preston Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, CD-ROM compiled by Mimmocchi, D., with Edwards, D., and Peel, R. (dated as ‘c.1947’)
• Provenance:
  Mrs Marcus Sheldon, by 1949; Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 5 November 1986, lot 18; The Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  "Drawings, Sculpture Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society" "(Fourth State Exhibition)," Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 6 – 23 March 1948, cat. 23 (as ‘Dry River Bed, Flinders Ranges’); "Pictures from the ‘Back Room’, "Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 25 January – 4 February 1956, cat. 23 (as ‘Dry River Bed Crossing, N.T.’); "Margaret Preston", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring (dated as ‘c.1947’)
• Estimate:
  A$15,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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