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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian and International Art
• Sale Date:
  29 Aug 2012 ~ 7pm
• Lot #:
  72
• Lot Description:
  Margaret Preston
  (1875 – 1963)
  Narcissi, C1916–19
  hand-coloured woodcut
  47.0 x 37.0 cm
  signed with initials in image upper left: MRM; signed with artist’s maiden name below image: Margaret R Macpherson
• Provenance:
  Private collection, United Kingdom; Acquired in Melbourne c1975
• References:
  Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 8, p. 69 (illus., another example).; Edwards, D., Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p. 47
• Notes:
  ‘Around 1915–16 Preston transposed the compositions of Japanese prints into a series of sketches and paintings in which the linear rhythms of interiors and kimono-clad women became those of the vases, flowers, cups, saucers and jugs of her still-life arrangements. A figure composition by Kiyonaga for example, was transposed into a sketch for an arrangement of jugs and flowers... Preston scattered sketches for compositions across her books on Japanese art. The painting Nasturtiums c1916 echoes at all points the vertical and diagonal rhythms of an original composition by Harunobu. Extant prints from around 1916, Still Life and flowers and Narcissi, are exercises in Japanese spacing and evoke the sense of similar translations. Such transpositions, taken only from figurative Japanese prints, reiterate the way in which Preston arranged the objects of her still lifes with the weight and prominence traditionally attached to the figure.’1 1. Edwards, D., Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p. 47
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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