MARGARET PRESTON (1875-1963)
Circular Quay 1925
Estimate: $22000 - 28000
Sold For:
$26000 hammer
Description
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
VIEWING MELBOURNE
8-11 March 11am-6pm
Menzies Gallery
1 Darling Street
SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141
VIEWING SYDNEY
15-21 March 11am-6pm, 1pm-6pm Sunday
Menzies Gallery
12 Todman Avenue
KENSINGTON NSW 2033