Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

Native flowers, 1949

colour stencil on paper

31.5 x 23.0 cm

from an edition of 3 (plus 2 proofs)
signed with initials in image lower right: M.P.

Henry Castle, New South Wales, acquired directly from the artist
Thence by descent
Private collection, New South Wales

probably Gouache Stencils by Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, September 1949
Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986 (another example)
Cutting Through Time—Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print, Geelong Gallery, Victoria, 17 May – 28 July 2024 (another example)

Your Garden: Australia’s down-to-earth gardening magazine, The Argus and Australasian Ltd, Melbourne, April 1954 (illus. front cover, another example)
Butel, E., Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Penguin Books & Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1985, cat. P.59, pp. 68 (illus., another example), 92
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, cat. 361, pp. 279 (illus., another example), 336

Other examples of this work are in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.