AUSTRALIAN GUM BLOSSOMS, 1928

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
2 May 2012
59

MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN GUM BLOSSOMS, 1928

hand-coloured woodcut

27.5 x 26.5 cm

signed and inscribed with title below image

Estimate: 
$8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $26,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 25 - 2 May 2012, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Australian Society of Artists, July 1930, no. 13 (as 'Gum blossom', another example)
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1985, cat. 19 (as 'Gum blossom', c1928, another example)

Literature

Art in Australia, 3rd Series, no. 26, December 1928, p. 121 (illus., another example)
The Home, Sydney, December 1928, p. 25 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raissoné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, p. 135, pl. 124 (illus., another example)