AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927
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MARGARET PRESTON
1875 – 1963
AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927
hand-coloured woodcut
11.0 x 11.0 cm
signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image
tipped into deluxe edition of Art in Australia, Margaret
Preston, No. 22, December 1927.
Book: edition number 28 / 32 accompanies this lot.
(Thirty two copies of the deluxe edition were printed; twenty five of these were for sale.)
Estimate:
$5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $11,590 (inc. BP) in Auction 41 - 2 December 2015, Sydney
Provenance
Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
Thence by descent
Ure Smith collection, Sydney
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, p. 131, cat. 120 (illus., another example)