Margaret Preston (1875-1963)
Native Flowers and Geebungs 1938
Estimate: $100000 - 150000
Sold For:
$100000 hammer
Description
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