FLOWERS IN JUG, c.1929
MARGARET PRESTON
hand-coloured woodcut
28.0 x 20.5 cm (image)
33.3 x 24.8 cm (sheet)
signed lower right below image: Margaret Preston
edition of 125
Private collection
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 22 April 1991, lot 56 (as ‘Mixed Blooms in a Black Jug’)
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 29 April 1991
Bloomin’ Art, Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales, December 2002 – May 2003
Australian Collection Focus: Colour, Rhythm, Design - wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 March – 11 July 2010 (another example)
In Bloom, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, 19 August – 14 September 2014
Morning, Noon and Light, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, 13 July – 13 October 2019
on long term loan to Wollongong City Gallery, New South Wales
Ure Smith, S., & Gellert, L. (eds.), Margaret Preston: Recent Paintings, Art & Australia, Sydney, 1929 pl. 6 (illus., as ‘Jug of Flowers’, another example)
Cashman, K., Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 2002
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2006, cat. 137, pp. 152, 153 (illus., another example)
Nainby, B., Stanhope, Z., and Furlonger, K., The Cbus Collection of Australian Art, in association with Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, pp. 19, 230 (illus.)
Campbell, H., Colour, Rhythm, design: wood and lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010, p. 11 (illus.)