ROUGH WEATHER, SYDNEY HEADS, 1946

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
15 July 2020
45

MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 – 1963)
ROUGH WEATHER, SYDNEY HEADS, 1946

colour monotype

30.5 x 40.0 cm

signed below image lower right: Margaret Preston
inscribed with title below image lower left: Rough Weather Sydney Heads. monotype

Estimate: 
$18,000 – 24,000
Sold for $22,091 (inc. BP) in Auction 61 - 15 July 2020, Melbourne
Provenance

Charles Lloyd Jones, Sydney, by 1949
Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1988

Exhibited

Australian Art: 1820s – 1980s, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 19 May – 3 June 1988, cat. 52 (illus. in exhibition catalogue)

Literature

Ure Smith, S., Margaret Preston’s Monotypes, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1949, p. 67
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 302
Margaret Preston Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, CD-ROM compiled by Mimmocchi, D., with Edwards, D., and Peel, R.