CIRCULAR QUAY, 1925

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
3 May 2023
45

MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 - 1963)
CIRCULAR QUAY, 1925

hand-coloured woodcut

24.5 x 24.5 cm (image)
41.5 x 29.5 cm (sheet)

edition: 6/50

signed with initials in image lower left: M.P.
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image:
6th Proof – Circular Quay – 25 / Margaret Preston

Estimate: 
$25,000 – $35,000
Sold for $63,818 (inc. BP) in Auction 74 - 3 May 2023, Melbourne
Provenance

Private collection, New South Wales
Private collection, Western Australia, acquired from the above in 2022

Exhibited

Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, The New Gallery, Melbourne, 24 November – 5 December 1925, cat. 9 (another example)
Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat. 57 (another example)
Australian Painter– Etcher’s Society Annual Exhibition, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 8 – 23 June 1928, cat. 233 (another example)
Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrations, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 21 March – 3 April 1932, cat. 143 (another example)
Work by Four Artists, 52a Collins St, Melbourne, November 1932, cat. 12 (another example)
Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc. by Margaret Preston [and others], The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 12 September 1933, cat. 17 (another example)
Exhibition of Etchings, pencil drawings and woodcuts, The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, May 1934, cat. 256 (another example)
The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980 and touring, cat. 10 (another example)
The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August – 18 October 1987, cat. 19 (another example)
Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 September – 13 October 2002 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring (another example)
Destination Sydney, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 11 December 2015 – 21 February 2016 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, another example)
O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 12 October 2016 – 11 February 2017, and touring, cat. 35 (another example)

Literature

Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd series, no. 17, September 1926, p. 48 (illus., as ‘Circular Quay, Sydney’, another example)
Australia Beautiful, (The Home Easter Pictorial), Sydney, 1928 (illus. cover, another example)
Draffin, N., Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, p. 50 (dated as c.1925)
North, I. (ed.), The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980, cat. P.10, pp. 19 (illus., another example), 53
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 84, p. 105 (illus., another example)
Butel, E., Margaret Preston, Editions Tom Thompson, Sydney, 1995, pl. 11, p. 31 (illus., another example), 87
Edwards, D., Peel, R. and Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 80, 92 (illus. another example), 285
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, revised edition 2005, cat. 84, p. 117 (illus. another example)
Harding, L., and Mimmocchi, D., (eds), O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2016, cat. 35, pp. 126 (illus., another example), 194