Native Flowers and Geebungs 1938

Margaret Preston (1875-1963)

Native Flowers and Geebungs 1938

oil on canvas
48.0 x 48.0 cm

signed and dated lower left: Margaret R Preston/ - 38

signed and inscribed on stretcher verso: "Native Flowers - Geebungs" Preston

inscribed indistinctly verso: Native Flowers - Geebungs

Provenance:

Acquired from the artist, private collection

The Snow Swift Collection, Sydney

Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Victoria

Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 16 August 1999, lot 45 (as Australian Wild Flowers)

Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 2001 (label attached verso, as Still Life, Flowers)

Private collection, Perth

Sotheby's, Melbourne, 26 November 2013, lot 26

The Collection of Millie Phillips, Sydney

Thence by descent, private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:

Group Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18-31 March 1938, cat.22

Blue Chip XIV: The Collectors' Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 6 March - 28 April 2012, cat.27 (partial label attached verso, illus. exhibition catalogue)

Reference:

Mimmochi, D. et al., Margaret Preston: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Monotypes and Ceramics [CD-ROM], Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, cat.1938.15 (illus.)

Estimate: $100000 - 150000

Result Hammer: $100000