Margaret Preston
1875-1963

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

Margaret Preston

1875-1963
STURTS PEA 1925

woodblock print, hand-coloured
signed in image lower left 'MP.'; inscribed '8th Proof 1925 / Sturts Pea' lower left; signed 'Margaret Preston' lower right
edition 8 of 50


18.5 X 24.5CM

• Lot Sold SOLD (Hammer Price)

Provenance

(Possibly) Australian, New Zealand, British and European Historical and Contemporary Paintings, Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 2 November 1977, lot 1111
Gina and Ted Gregg Collection, Sydney
By descent
Private Collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November - 2 December 1925, no. 20, \xA31.10.0 (another impression)
Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Sydney, September 1926, no. 66, \xA31.10.0 (another impression)

Literature

Woman's World, Sydney, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1926, p. 64, 'N.S.W. Wild Flowers' (illustrated, another impression)
The Home, Sydney, Vol. 8, No. 8, August 1927, p. 26 (illustrated, another impression)
Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, No. 22 (Margaret Preston Number), December 1927, p. 76, plate 41, 'Australian Wild Flowers' (illustrated, another impression)
Art in Australia, Sydney, No. 57, 15 November 1934, p. 90 (illustrated, another impression)
Roger Butler, The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. no. 88, p. 109 (illustrated, another impression)