Native flowers, 1949

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
26 November 2025
10

Margaret Preston

(1875 - 1963)
Native flowers, 1949

colour stencil on black paper

31.5 x 23.0 cm

from an edition of 3 (plus 2 proofs)

signed with initials in image lower right: M.P.

Estimate: 
$25,000 – $35,000
Provenance

Henry Castle, New South Wales, acquired directly from the artist
Thence by descent
Private collection, New South Wales

Exhibited

probably Gouache Stencils by Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, September 1949
Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986 (another example)
Cutting Through Time—Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print, Geelong Gallery, Victoria, 17 May – 28 July 2024 (another example)

Literature

Your Garden: Australia’s down-to-earth gardening magazine, The Argus and Australasian Ltd, Melbourne, April 1954 (illus. front cover, another example)
Butel, E., Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Penguin Books & Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1985, cat. P.59, pp. 68 (illus., another example), 92
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 361, pp. 279 (illus., another example), 336