Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
BRACHYCHITON DISCOLOR, c.1931
hand–coloured woodcut
46.0 x 46.0 cm (image)
60.0 x 54.0 cm (sheet)
edition: 2nd proof of unknown edition size
signed with initials lower right: MP
signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: Brachychiton 2nd proof Margaret Preston
Estimate:
$20,000 - $30,000
Sold:
$28,227 (inc. BP)
© Margaret Preston/Copyright Agency 2023
lot details
60.0 x 54.0 cm (sheet)
signed with initials lower right: MP
signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: Brachychiton 2nd proof Margaret Preston
Private collection, New South Wales
Private collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above c.1970
Exhibited
Society of Artists, Special Exhibition, David Jones’ Restaurant Annexe, Sydney, 14 – 28 May 1931, cat. 1 (as ‘Bracychilon [sic.] discolour [sic.]’)
Literature
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 154, p. 158 (as ‘Brachychiton discolor, c.1931)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery & Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2005, cat. 154, p. 167 (as ‘Brachychiton discolor, c.1931’)