FLANNEL FLOWERS ETC., c.1928

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
13

MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 – 1963)
FLANNEL FLOWERS ETC., c.1928

hand-coloured woodcut

27.5 x 27.5 cm

signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image: flannel flowers etc woodcut Margaret Preston

Estimate: 
$8,000 – 12,000
Sold for $19,520 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
Provenance

Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in June 1974

Exhibited

Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, Art Society of Tasmania, Town Hall, Hobart, 14 – 23 February 1928, cat. 136 (another example)
Margaret Preston Woodblocks, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1936, cat. 14 (another example)
Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc., The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 9 – 24 December 1936, cat. 147 (another example)
Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 27 (another example, as ‘Flannel Flowers etc., c.1926’, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 21)
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986, cat. P.33 (another example)
The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August – 18 October 1987, cat. 38 (another example)

Literature

Art in Australia, Sydey, Third series, no. 66, February 1937 (illus. front cover, another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 123, p. 134 (illus., another example)
Butel, E., Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, exhibition catalogue, Penguin Books, Victoria, 1985, p. 89