AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927

Important Australian and International Fine Art
Melbourne
28 November 2018
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© Margaret Preston/Copyright Agency, 2018
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MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 – 1963)
AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927

hand-coloured woodcut

11.0 x 11.0 cm

edition of 32 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

Estimate: 
$8,000 – 12,000
Sold for $9,760 (inc. BP) in Auction 56 - 28 November 2018, Melbourne
Provenance

Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso)
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., The Prints of Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 120, p. 131 (illus., another example)