BASKET OF AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1925

Important Fine Art and Aboriginal Art
Sydney
30 November 2016
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MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 – 1963)
BASKET OF AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1925

hand-coloured woodcut

13.0 x 13.0 cm

edition of 50

signed with initials in image lower left: M.P
signed and inscribed below image

Estimate: 
$8,000 – 12,000
Sold for $19,520 (inc. BP) in Auction 46 - 30 November 2016, Sydney
Provenance

Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 29 (another example)

Literature

Art in Australia, no. 22 December 1927, pl. 35, p. 71 (illus., another example. As ‘Basket of Australian Wild Flowers’)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 94, p. 112 (illus., another example)