KOOKABURRAS, c.1923

Important Fine Art and Aboriginal Art
Sydney
30 November 2016
92

MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 – 1963)
KOOKABURRAS, c.1923

woodblock print

16.5 x 13.0 cm

edition of 50

signed in image with artist’s monogram lower right

Estimate: 
$2,500 – 4,500
Sold for $7,320 (inc. BP) in Auction 46 - 30 November 2016, Sydney
Provenance

Kingsley Sutton, Ballarat
Thence by descent
Private collection, Launceston
Menzies, Sydney, 13 September 2012, lot 71
Roger Langsworth, Sydney

Literature

Butler, R.,The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, p. 81, cat. 25 (illus., another example)