THE BRIDGE FROM NORTH SHORE, c.1932 (also known as ‘SYDNEY BRIDGE’)

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
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MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 – 1963)
THE BRIDGE FROM NORTH SHORE, c.1932 (also known as ‘SYDNEY BRIDGE’)

hand-coloured woodcut

19.0 x 23.0 cm

signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: 3rd print Bridge from N. Shore Margaret Preston

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $29,280 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
Provenance

probably: Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne

Exhibited

Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrations, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 21 March – 3 April 1932, cat. 145 (another example)
Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc. by Margaret Preston, The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, September 1933, cat. 24 (another example, as ‘Bridge from North Shore’)
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986, cat. P.25 (another example, as ‘Sydney Bridge’)
Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 September – 13 October 2002 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring (another example, as ‘Sydney Bridge’)
Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013, (another example)
O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith. Making Modernism, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 12 October 2016 – 19 February 2017 and touring, cat. 51b (another example, as ‘Sydney Bridge’)

Literature

Butel, E., Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, exhibition catalogue, Penguin Books, Victoria, 1985, p. 88
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 158, p. 159 (illus., another example)
Edwards, D., Peel, R., and Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 83, 93 (illus., another example), 260, 286
Edwards, D., and Mimmocchi, D. (eds.), Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 107 (illus., another example), 315
O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith. Making Modernism, exhibition catalogue, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp. 127 (illus., another example), 196 (illus., another example)