Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

STURT’S DESERT PEA, 1925

hand–coloured woodcut

18.5 x 24.5 cm (image)
26.5 x 29.0 cm (sheet)

edition: 25/50
signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: 25the proof Sturt’s pea etc. Margaret Preston
signed with initials in image lower left: MP.

Private collection, Sydney
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 16 May 2006, lot 73
Private collection, Melbourne

Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 20 (another example)
Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Sydney, September 1926, cat. 66 (another example)

Woman’s World, Sydney, vol. 6, no. 1, January 1926, p. 64 (illus., another example, as ‘N.S.W. Wild Flowers’)
The Home, Sydney, vol. 8, no. 8, August 1927, p. 26 (illus., another example)
Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, No. 22 (Margaret Preston Number), December 1927, p. 76, pl. 41 (illus., another example, as ‘Australian Wild Flowers’)
Art in Australia, Sydney, No. 57, 15 November 1934, p. 90 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, cat. 88, p. 109 (illus., another example)

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra