DAHLIA AND SUNFLOWER, 1933
MARGARET PRESTON
hand-coloured woodcut
30.5 x 30.5 cm
signed with initials in image lower right: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image: Sunflowers + dahlias Margaret Preston
Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane
Private collection, Queensland, acquired from the above in 1984
Estate of the above, Queensland
Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc. by Margaret Preston (and others), The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 12 September 1933, cat. 14 (another example, as ‘Sunflowers etc.’)
Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts & Pencil drawings, The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 12 – 24 December 1933, cat. 178 (another example)
Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc., The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 9 – 24 December 1936, cat. 150 (another example, as ‘Dahlia and Sunflowers’)
Society of Artists, Parbury House, Brisbane, 19 May – 5 June 1937, cat. 75 (another example, as ‘Sunflower’)
Art in Australia, Sydney, Third series, no. 50, June 1933, p. 48 (as ‘Sunflowers and Dahlias’)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 170, p. 166 (illus., another example)