Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS, 1927

hand–coloured woodcut

11.0 x 11.0 cm (image)
23.0 x 17.0 cm (sheet)

from the edition of 32 previously 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: Australian flowers Margaret Preston

Private collection, Sydney
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 16 May 2006, lot 72
Private collection, Melbourne

A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 29 (another example)

Butler, R., and Deutscher, C., A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 1978, cat. 29, p. 21 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 120, p. 131 (illus., another example)

Another example of this print is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney