AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927
© Margaret Preston/Copyright Agency 2022
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MARGARET PRESTON
(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927
hand–coloured woodcut
11.0 x 11.0 cm (image)
23.0 x 17.0 cm (sheet)
from the edition of 32 previously tipped into the deluxe edition of Art in Australia, Margaret Preston Number, No. 22, December 1927
signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image: Australian flowers Margaret Preston
Estimate:
$8,000 – $12,000
Sold for $16,568 (inc. BP) in Auction 71 - 14 September 2022, Sydney
Provenance
Private collection, Sydney
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 16 May 2006, lot 72
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 29 (another example)
Literature
Butler, R., and Deutscher, C., A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, cat. 29, p. 21 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 120, p. 131 (illus., another example)