Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

HIBISCUS, 1925

hand–coloured woodcut

24.5 x 25.0 cm

edition: 2nd proof
signed with initials in image lower right: M.P.
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image:
2nd proof [indistinctly] Flowers No 2 Margaret Preston 25

Private collection
Lawsons, Sydney, 12 July 1988, lot 105
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1991
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney

The Society of Artists Exhibition, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, 4 – 20 November, 1925, cat. 100 (another example, as ‘Flowers’)
Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 14 (another example)
Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat. 63 (another example)

Ure Smith, S., and Gellert, L. (eds), Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, no. 14, December 1925, n.p., (illus. as ‘Flowers’, another example)
‘MARGARET PRESTON’S WOODCUTS; Exhibition at Dunster Galleries’, The Register, Adelaide, 8 September 1926, p. 11 (another example)
Ure Smith, S., and Gellert, L. (eds), The Home: The Australian Journal of Quality, Art in Australia, Sydney, vol. 8, no. 8, 1 August 1927, pp. 26 (illus., another example), 32 (illus., another example)
Ure Smith, S., and Gellert, L. (eds), Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, no. 22, December 1927, pl. 34 (illus., another example)
Ure Smith, S., and Gellert, L. (eds), Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, no. 57, November 1934, p. 17 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 97, pp. 114, 115 (illus., another example), 335
Gray, A., et al., Modern Australian Women Artists: The Andrée Harkness Collection, Museum Victoria Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, pp. 8 (illus. detail, another example), 9, 166, 167 (illus., another example), 234

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne