BANKSIA AND TRUNK, c.1935

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
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© Margaret Preston/Copyright Agency, 2019
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MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 – 1963)
BANKSIA AND TRUNK, c.1935

woodcut

30.5 x 30.5 cm

edition: unknown

signed with initials in image lower right: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image: aus,, Banksia woodcut Margaret Preston

Estimate: 
$3,500 – 4,500
Sold for $10,980 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection, California, USA

Exhibited

Contemporary Group Exhibition, Farmer’s Blaxland
Galleries, Sydney, 13 – 24 August 1935, cat. 91 (another example)
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986, cat. P28 (another example)
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005, and touring (another example)

Literature

Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 184, p. 174 (illus., another example)