Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

WARATAHS ETC, 1949

colour stencil on black card

37.5 x 30.0 cm

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

Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
Thence by descent
Ure Smith collection, Sydney

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 (another example)
State of the Waratah, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1 September – 8 October 2000 (another example)

Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, pp. 270-271, cat. 351 (illus., another example)

The only other recorded example from this edition is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
“The simplicity of the stencil cuttings and the traditional way of colouring, which leaves a large section of the black background untouched, suggests that this is Preston’s earliest stencil print in this series.” – Butler, R., p. 271