The Green Curtain c1918

Margaret Preston (1875-1963)

The Green Curtain c1918

oil on cardboard
53.0 x 44.0 cm

signed lower right: Margaret R. Preston

Provenance:

Walter Taylor Collection, 1958 M. Reilly Private collection, Sydney Christie's, Melbourne, 24 November 1993, lot 163 Private collection, Melbourne Menzies, Sydney, 26 March 2015, lot 30 Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

42nd Annual Exhibition, Royal Art Society of New South Wales, Sydney, August 1921, cat.115 Margaret Preston and William Dobell Loan Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 March - 16 April 1942 Spring Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 30 September - 13 October 1952 Margaret Preston: Art and Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July - 23 October 2005; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 12 November 2005 - 29 January 2006; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 18 February - 6 May 2006; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 May - 13 August 2006 (label attached verso)

Reference:

Edwards, D., Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p.52 (illus.) Gleeson, J., ‘Grosvenor Galleries Spring Show,' The Sun, Sydney, 30 September 1952, p.11 ‘Grosvenor Galleries Exhibition,' Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 30 September 1952, p.2 ‘At Sydney Galleries,' The Australian Courier, Sydney, 3 October 1952, p.5

Estimate: $55000 - 70000

Result Hammer: $75000