WARATAHS ETC, 1949

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
28 August 2024
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MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 - 1963)
WARATAHS ETC, 1949

colour stencil on black card

42.0 x 33.0 cm

signed with initials in image lower right: M.P.
dated lower right: 1949
inscribed with title lower left: Waratahs Etc / monotype

Estimate: 
$25,000 – $35,000
Sold for $51,545 (inc. BP) in Auction 79 - 28 August 2024, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, USA

Exhibited

Margaret Preston Survey (Nine Paintings and Thirteen Prints by Margaret Preston), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 June – 16 September 1959 (another example)
Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986 (another example)
State of the Waratah, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1 September – 8 October 2000 (another example)

Literature

Butel, E., Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Penguin Books & Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1985, cat. P.72, p. 93, as 'Waratahs etc (c.1953 - 57)' [sic] (another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 351, pp. 270 (illus., another example), 271

Related works

There are only two other recorded examples of this stencil: one is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the other, formerly in the collection of Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney sold to a private collection by Deutscher and Hackett (2 December 2015, lot 4).

“The simplicity of the stencil cuttings and the traditional way of colouring, which leaves a large section of the black background untouched, suggests that this is Preston’s earliest stencil print in this series.” – Butler, R., p. 271