Margaret Preston
1875-1963

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

Margaret Preston

1875-1963
WATTLE 1928

oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Margaret / Preston / 1928' lower centre; frame: original, S.A. Parker, Sydney
46 X 45.5CM

• Lot Sold $160,000 (Hammer Price)
• $195,200 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

The Estate of the Late Jane Hill, Sydney
Australian and International Fine Art, Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne, 24 November 2009, lot 25, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney

Exhibited

A Group of Contemporary Painters [Contemporary Art Group], Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 29 November - 8 December 1928, no. 5
Margaret Preston: Art and Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July - 23 October 2005, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 12 November - 29 January 2006, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 18 February - 7 May 2006, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 May - 13 August 2006, illustrated

Literature

Home, Sydney, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 1928, cover (illustrated)
Australia Beautiful: The Home Annual, Sydney, 1928, n.p. (illustrated)
Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd series, No. 25, September 1928, p. 16 (illustrated); No. 26, December 1928, p. 30 (illustrated); No. 27, March 1929, n.p. (illustrated); No. 29, September 1929, n.p. (illustrated), 'Wattle Blossom'
The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 29 November 1929, p. 15
Deborah Edwards, Rose Peel and Denise Mimmochi, Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 136 (illustrated), 145
Denise Mimmochi, Margaret Preston: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Monotypes and Ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, illustrated