Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927
Edition: Book: edition number 28 / 32 accompanies this lot
hand-coloured woodcut
11.0 x 11.0 cm
signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image tipped into deluxe edition of Art in Australia, Margaret Preston, No. 22, December 1927. (Thirty two copies of the deluxe edition were printed; twenty five of these were for sale.)
Estimate:
$5,000 - $7,000
Sold:
$11,590 (inc. BP)
© Margaret Preston/Copyright Agency 2021
lot details
signed and inscribed with title below image tipped into deluxe edition of Art in Australia, Margaret Preston, No. 22, December 1927. (Thirty two copies of the deluxe edition were printed; twenty five of these were for sale.)
Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
Thence by decent
Ure Smith collection, Sydney
Exhibited
A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 29 (another example)
Literature
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, p. 131, cat. 120 (illus., another example)