WEAVER'S COTTAGE, BILBURY, 1916

Important Women Artists
Melbourne
10 November 2021
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MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 - 1963)
WEAVER'S COTTAGE, BILBURY, 1916

watercolour and charcoal on paper

26.5 x 29.5 cm

signed and dated lower right: M R / Macpherson / — 16

Estimate: 
$8,000 – $12,000
Sold for $18,409 (inc. BP) in Auction 65 - 10 November 2021, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 12 April 1989, lot 1526
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Exhibition of Paintings, Prints and Pottery, Macpherson and Reynell, Preece’s Gallery, Adelaide, 15 – 30 September 1919, cat. 31

Literature

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.

Related works

Old House, c.1916, etching, 12.5 x 15.0 cm, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 
Mill Pond, Bilbury, c.1916, etching, 22.5 x 15.0 cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney