Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927
hand-coloured woodcut
11.0 x 11.0 cm
edition of 32 tipped into the deluxe edition of Art in Australia, Margaret Preston Number, No. 22, December 1927
signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image
Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000
Sold:
$9,760 (inc. BP)
© Margaret Preston/Copyright Agency, 2018
lot details
Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)
AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927
hand-coloured woodcut
11.0 x 11.0 cm
edition of 32 tipped into the deluxe edition of Art in Australia, Margaret Preston Number, No. 22, December 1927
signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image
signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image
Provenance
Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney (label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
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, cat. 120, p. 131 (illus., another example)