Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN NATIVE FLOWERS, 1943
colour masonite cut
42.0 x 37.0 cm
signed with initials and dated in image lower left: MP. 43
inscribed with title lower left: australian native flowers – …
signed lower right: … Margaret Preston
Estimate:
$20,000 - $30,000
Sold:
$31,720 (inc. BP)
lot details
Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN NATIVE FLOWERS, 1943
colour masonite cut
42.0 x 37.0 cm
signed with initials and dated in image lower left: MP. 43
inscribed with title lower left: australian native flowers – …
signed lower right: … Margaret Preston
inscribed with title lower left: australian native flowers – …
signed lower right: … Margaret Preston
Provenance
Private collection, United Kingdom
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Contemporary Art Society, Education Department Art Gallery, Sydney, 29 June – 19 July 1943, cat. 215 (another example, as ‘Native Flowers’)
Literature
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 233, p. 200 (illus., another example, as ‘Native Flowers’)