Sydney Heads II 1925

Margaret Preston (1875-1963)

Sydney Heads II 1925

hand-coloured woodcut
25.0 x 18.0 cm (image); 27.5 x 20.0 cm (sheet)

signed lower right: Margaret Preston

numbered, titled and dated lower left: 3rd Proof - Sydney Heads 25

signed with initials within image lower left: PM

edition: 3/50

Provenance:

Private collection, Sydney

Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, 1 May 2002, lot 282 (as Sydney Heads)

Private collection, Victoria

Exhibited:

Sydney Harbour 1794-1979, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 3-26 August 1979 (another example)

Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 - 9 February 1986, cat.P.12 (illus. exhibition catalogue p.31, another example)

Harbour Hymns, City Songs: Visions of Sydney from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 January - 11 March 1990, cat.102 (another example)

Big Blue: The Painted Harbour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 June 1997 - 29 March 1998 (another example)

Art Deco: From Sydney Cinemas and Pubs to Skyscrapers, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 12 June - 5 September 1999 (another example)

Australian Icons: Twenty Artists from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 August - 3 December 2000 (another example)

Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 September - 13 October 2002 (illus. exhibition catalogue n.p., another example)

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/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 18 February - 7 May 2006; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 May - 13 August 2006 (another example)

Australian Collection Focus: Colour, Rhythm, Design - Wood & Lino Cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 March - 11 July 2010 (illus. exhibition catalogue p.2, another example)

Slow Burn: A Century of Australian Women Artists from a Private Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 6 August - 19 September 2010 (illus. exhibition catalogue p.14, another example)

Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July - 7 October 2013 (illus. exhibition catalogue p. 162, another example)

Destination Sydney, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 11 December 2015 - 21 February 2016 (another example)

O'Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 11 March - 11 June 2017; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 July - 2 October 2017; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 12 October 2016 - 19 February 2017 (another example)

Reference:

Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, p.104, cat.81 (illus., another example)

Barry, P., Australian Art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, pp.103-4, 301 (illus. p.120, another example)

Edwards, D., Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p.285 (illus. p.83, another example)

Boland, M., 'Master Cards', The Weekend Australian, Sydney, 7 September 2013, p.9

Harding, L., Margaret Preston: Recipes for Food and Art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2016, p.133 (illus., another example)

Related Works:

Other examples of this work are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Estimate: $20000 - 25000

Result Hammer: $19000