Margaret Preston
(1875 - 1963)
Bottlebrush, 1952
oil on canvas
42.0 x 34.0 cm
71.5 x 64.0 cm (frame)
signed and dated lower right: Margaret Preston / -52
Estimate:
$40,000 - $60,000
© Margaret Preston/Copyright Agency 2026
lot details
71.5 x 64.0 cm (frame)
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
Private collection
John Martin & Co., Adelaide (labels attached verso)
Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne
Queensland Fine Art Auctioneers, Brisbane, 1989
Sotheby's, Melbourne, 22 April 1996, lot 134 (as ‘Still life of native flowers’)
Henry Krongold, Melbourne
Thence by descent
Private collection, Melbourne
Exhibited
Macquarie Galleries Exhibition: Sydney painting 1952, Finney’s Gallery, Brisbane, 15 – 25 July 1952, cat. 43
Fine paintings, Queensland Fine Art Auctioneers, Brisbane, 25 February – 2 March 1989, lot 68 (as ‘Native flowers’)
Literature
Margaret Preston Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, CD-Rom compiled by Mimmocchi, D., with Edwards, D., and Peel, R. cat. 1952.01 (illus.)