Pandanus, Elsey Falls 1946

MARGARET PRESTON (1875-1963)

Pandanus, Elsey Falls 1946

colour monotype
29.0 x 32.0 cm (image); 38.0 x 40.0 cm (sheet); 50.0 x 51.0 cm (framed)
signed and inscribed lower right: Monotype Margaret Preston
inscribed lower left: Pandanus, Elsy [sic] falls. NT.

Provenance:
Mrs E. de Mestre, by 1949
Private collection, Melbourne
Thence by descent, private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher + Hackett, Melbourne, 29 November 2017, lot 4
Private collection, Victoria

Exhibited:
Drawings, Sculpture Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society [Fourth State Exhibition], Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, 6-23 March 1948, cat.60

Reference:
Ure Smith, S., Margaret Preston's Monotypes, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1949, p.66 (as Elsey Falls, N.T.)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005, p.270, cat.313
Edwards, D., et al., Margaret Preston: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Monotypes and Ceramics [CD-ROM], Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005 (as Pandanus - Elsey Falls c1947)

Estimate: $20000 - 30000

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