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PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE WALTER TAYLOR COLLECTION, SYDNEY

MARGARET PRESTON
1875-1963

Red and White Gumblossom 1929

$100,000–150,000

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© The Estate of Margaret Preston/Copyright Agency, 2019

PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE WALTER TAYLOR COLLECTION, SYDNEY

MARGARET PRESTON

1875-1963
Red and White Gumblossom 1929

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Margaret Preston / 1929' lower left
46.2 x 38.5 cm

  • Lot Sold $170,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $207,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney
Mr Walter Taylor, Sydney
Private Collection, Sydney, acquired in 1950

Exhibited

Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 7-31 August 1929, no. 26, 15 gns
Margaret Preston and William Dobell Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 March - 16 April 1942, no. 9, 'Gum Blossoms' (label verso)
110 Years of Australian Art, Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, 18 September 1950, no. 90, 'Gum Blossoms' (label verso)

Literature

Beatrice Tildesley, 'Margaret Preston's Work Excites Other Artists', The Sydney Mail, Sydney, 7 August 1929, p. 13
Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert, Margaret Preston Recent Paintings, Art in Australia, Sydney, 1929, plate 19
Roger Butler, The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonn\xE9, Australian National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, p. 311
Roger Butler, The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonn\xE9 (rev. ed.), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005, p. 345
Denise Mimmochi, Margaret Preston: Catalogue Raisonn\xE9 of Paintings, Monotypes and Ceramics, CD-ROM, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, illustrated

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Specialists

Geoffrey Smith

Geoffrey Smith

Chairman

Australian & International Art
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E: Geoffrey Smith

Gary Singer

Chief Executive Officer

Australian & International Art
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E: Gary Singer
       
Fiona Hayward

Fiona Hayward

Senior Specialist

Australian & International Art
Melbourne
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E: Fiona Hayward

Brett Ballard

Brett Ballard

Senior Specialist

Australian & International Art
Sydney
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E: Brett Ballard
Liza Hallam

Liza Hallam

Administrator

Australian & International Art
Melbourne
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E: Liza Hallam
Important Australian & International Art

AU0833  |  9 Apr 2019  |  Sydney
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