ABORIGINAL ART, 1949

Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
Sydney
2 December 2015
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MARGARET PRESTON

1875 – 1963
ABORIGINAL ART, 1949

colour stencil on black card

24.0 x 32.0 cm

Estimate: 
$10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $23,180 (inc. BP) in Auction 41 - 2 December 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
Thence by descent
Ure Smith collection, Sydney

Exhibited

The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 May – 22 July 1980 (another example)
Margaret Preston: Art and Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring in 2006 to: Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (label attached verso)

Literature

North, I., The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1980, p. 57, cat. P.37 (illus.)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, p. 277, cat. 358 (illus., another example)
Edwards, D., ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s – 1950s', Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p. 249 (illus.)

Related works

The only other recorded example of this stencil, in different colours, is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra inscribed, ‘monotype’.