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MARGARET PRESTON - Circular Quay


(c) The Estate of Margaret Preston. Licensed by VISCOPY Ltd, Australia

MARGARET PRESTON (1875-1963)

Circular Quay 1925

Estimate: $22000 - 28000

Sold For:
$26000 hammer
$31909 inc. buyer's premium

 

MARGARET PRESTON (1875-1963)

Circular Quay 1925

handcoloured woodcut
24.5 x 24.0 cm
artist's monogram in image lower left
numbered, titled, dated and signed below image

edition: 12th proof

Provenance:
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:
Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 1925, no.9 (another example)
Blue Chip XIII: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 2011 (label attached verso)

Reference:
Art in Australia, 3rd series, No.17, 1926, pl.48 (illus, another example)
Australia Beautiful, (The Home Easter Pictorial Sydney Number), 1928, (illus. cover, another example)
McQueen, H., Black Swan of Trespass<.i>, 1979, pl.23
North, I., The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980, p.53, no. 10 (illus. another example)
Butel, E., Margaret Preston, Editions Tom Thompson, Sydney, 1985, p.87 (illus. p.31)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, Canberra, 1987, cat.84 (illus., another example)
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p.92 (illus.)

Estimate: $22000 - 28000

Result Hammer: $26000

Location

Auction in Sydney, 22 March 2012
Exhibition in Melbourne, 8-11 March 2012
Exhibition in Sydney, 15-21 March 2012

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