Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

A MILE OUT OF ALICE SPRINGS, 1949

Edition: edition: 3

colour stencil on black card

25.0 x 32.5 cm

signed with initials lower right: M.P.

Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
Thence by descent

Ure Smith collection, Sydney

Gouache Stencils by Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, September 1949
Margaret Preston Survey (Nine Paintings and Thirteen Prints by Margaret Preston), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 June – 16 September 1959
Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986
Margaret Preston: Art and Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring in 2006 to, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (another example)

Butel, E., Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, p. 92, cat. P.61 ( illus. another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, p. 278, cat. 359 (illus., another example)
Edwards, D., Margaret Preston, ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s – 1950s’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p. 241 (illus. another example)

Another example from this edition is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.