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Lot #13 - Margaret Preston

  • Auction House:
    Deutscher and Hackett
  • Sale Name:
    Important Australian + International Art
  • Sale Date:
    28 Aug 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
  • Lot #:
    13
  • Lot Description:
    Margaret Preston
    (1875 – 1963)
    Flannel Flowers Etc., c.1928
    hand-coloured woodcut
    27.5 x 27.5 cm
    signed with initials in image lower left: MP; signed and inscribed with title below image: flannel flowers etc woodcut Margaret Preston
    EXHIBITED: "Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition," Art Society of Tasmania, Town Hall, Hobart, 14 – 23 February 1928, cat. 136 (another example); "Margaret Preston Woodblocks", Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1936, cat. 14 (another example); "Exhibition of Etchings", "Woodcuts etc.," The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 9 – 24 December 1936, cat. 147 (another example); "Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950", Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 27 (another example, as ‘Flannel Flowers etc., c.1926’, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 21); "Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986, cat. P.33 (another example); "The Prints of Margaret Preston", Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August – 18 October 1987, cat. 38 (another example)
  • Provenance:
    Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne; Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in June 1974
  • References:
    "Art in Australia", Sydey, Third series, no. 66, February 1937 (illus. front cover, another example); Butler, R., "The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné," Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 123, p. 134 (illus., another example); Butel, E., "Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement", exhibition catalogue, Penguin Books, Victoria, 1985, p. 89
  • Notes:
    Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Victoria
  • Estimate:
    A$8,000 - 12,000
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Art

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