Hibiscus 1925

MARGARET PRESTON (1875-1963)

Hibiscus 1925

hand-coloured woodcut
24.5 x 25.0 cm (image); 28.5 x 27.5 cm (sheet)
signed, dated and numbered lower right: Margaret Preston No 7-25
inscribed lower left: Flowers - Elioth Gruner from Margaret Preston
signed with initials within image lower right: M.P.

edition: 7/50

Provenance:
Gift from the artist to Elioth Gruner, Sydney
Margaret Schiller, Sydney
Estate of the above
Davidson Auctions, Sydney, 31 March 2019, lot 10
Private collection, Sydney
Gift from the above, private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:
The Society of Artists Exhibition, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, 4-20 November 1925, cat.100 (as Flowers, another example)
Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November - 2 December 1925, cat.14 (another example)
Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat.63 (another example)
The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August - 18 October 1987; Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Brisbane, 1 December 1989 - 2 January 1990; S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 February - 15 March 1990; Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 22 March - 22 April 1990; Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, 4-27 May 1990; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 7-24 June 1990; Araluen Arts Centre, Northern Territory, 6 July - 5 August 1990; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 21 September - 28 October 1990 (another example)

Reference:
Ure Smith, S. & Gellert, L. (eds.), Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd series, no.14, December 1925, p.63 (illus., as Flowers, another example)
'Margaret Preston“s Woodcuts; Exhibition at Dunster Galleries', The Register, Adelaide, 8 September 1926, p.11
Ure Smith, S. & Gellert, L. (eds.), The Home: The Australian Journal of Quality, Art in Australia, Sydney, vol.8, no.8, 1 August 1927, pp.26, 32 (illus., another example)
Ure Smith, S. & Gellert, L. (eds.), Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd series, no.22, December 1927, n.p. (illus. pl.34, another example)
Ure Smith, S. & Gellert, L. (eds.), Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd series, no.57, November 1934, p.17 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1987, pp.114, 115, 335, cat.97 (illus. pp.114, 115, another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, revised edition, 2005, p.125, cat.97 (illus., another example)
Gray, A. et al., Modern Australian Women Artists: The Andrée Harkness Collection, Museum Victoria Publishing, Melbourne, 2020, pp.8, 9, 166, 167, 234 (illus. pp.8 [detail], 167, another example)

Related Works:
Other examples of this work are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

Estimate: $15000 - 20000

Result Hammer: $17000

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