DRY RIVER CROSSING, N.T., 1946

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
12

MARGARET PRESTON

(1875 – 1963)
DRY RIVER CROSSING, N.T., 1946

colour monotype

20.5 x 25.5 cm

signed and inscribed with title below image: Dry River Crossing N.T. Margaret Preston

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Provenance

Mrs Marcus Sheldon, by 1949
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 5 November 1986, lot 18
The Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne

Exhibited

Drawings, Sculpture Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society (Fourth State Exhibition), Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 6 – 23 March 1948, cat. 23 (as ‘Dry River Bed, Flinders Ranges’)
Pictures from the ‘Back Room’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 25 January – 4 February 1956, cat. 23 (as ‘Dry River Bed Crossing, N.T.’)
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring (dated as ‘c.1947’)

Literature

Ure Smith, S. (ed.), Margaret Preston’s Monotypes, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1949, p. 66 (as ‘Dry River Bed’)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 314, p. 250 (as ‘Dry river bed, Flinders Ranges, 1946’)
Edwards, D., Peel, R., and Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 231 (illus.), 232, 285 (as ‘c.1947’)
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. (dated as ‘c.1947’)