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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian + International Art
• Sale Date:
  28 Aug 2019 ~ 7pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  14
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Black Swans, Wallis Lake, N.S.W., 1923
  woodcut; edition of 50
  19.0 x 27.0 cm
  signed with initial in image upper left: P; signed and inscribed with title below image: Black Swans Margaret Preston
  EXHIBITED: "Exhibition of Woodcuts, "Tyrell’s Art Galleries, Sydney, 1923 (another example); "Society of Artists, An Exhibition of Etchings and Drawings," Farmer’s Exhibition Hall, Sydney, 17 – 27 November 1924, cat. 46 (as ‘Flight (woodcut)’, another example); "Margaret Preston and Thea Proctor Exhibition", Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 40 (as ‘Black Swans’, another example); "Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston", Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat. 45 (as ‘Black Swans’, another example); "Margaret Preston and William Dobell Loan Exhibition", National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 March – 16 April 1942, cat. 1 (as ‘Swans’, another example); "The Art of Margaret Preston", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 May – 22 July 1980, cat. P6 (another example); "The Prints of Margaret Preston", Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August – 18 October 1987, cat. 8 (another example); "Margaret Preston", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring (another example) REFERENCES: "Art in Australia", Sydney, third series, no. 22, December 1927 (as ‘Swans’); Draffin, N., "Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s", Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, p. 49 (as ‘Black Swans, Wallis Lake, c.1925’); North, I. (ed.), "The Art of Margaret Preston", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980, cat. P6, p. 52 (illus., another example, dated as c.1923); Butler, R., "The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné," Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford; University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 26, pp. 82 (illus., another example), 83; Butel, E. (ed), "Art and Australia by Margaret Preston: Selected Writings 1920 – 1950," Richmond Ventures, Sydney, third edition, 2003, p. 71 (illus.); Edwards, D., Peel, R., and Mimmocchi, D., "Margaret Preston", exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 105, 262 (illus., another example), 285
• Provenance:
  Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne; Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in October 1980
• Estimate:
  A$5,000 - 7,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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