STILL LIFE – BASKET, 1925
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MARGARET PRESTON
(1875 – 1963)
STILL LIFE – BASKET, 1925
hand-coloured woodcut
19.0 x 19.0 cm
edition of 50
signed with initials in image lower right: MP
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image: 5th proof Margaret Preston / 1925 / Still Life
Estimate:
$12,000 – 18,000
Sold for $14,640 (inc. BP) in Auction 52 - 29 November 2017, Melbourne
Provenance
Private collection, Melbourne by 1967
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 15 (another example)
Literature
Art in Australia, 3rd series, no. 22, December 1927, pl. 31 (illus., another example as ‘Basket of Fruit’)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 63, p. 94 (illus., another example)