MARGARET PRESTON
1875-1963
Black Jug with Kangaroo Paws 1956
$40,000–60,000
PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF H.C. 'NUGGET' COOMBS, SYDNEY
MARGARET PRESTON
1875-1963
Black Jug with Kangaroo Paws 1956
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'M. PRESTON JAN. 56' lower right
frame: original, S. A. Parker, Sydney
59 x 46 cm
- Lot Sold $40,000 (Hammer Price)
- $48,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
H.C. 'Nugget' Coombs, Sydney
By descent
Private Collection, Sydney
Exhibited
Easter 1956, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 28 March - 16 April 1956, no. 20, 30 gns
Literature
Roger Butler, The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonne, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, p. 317
Denise Mimmochi, Margaret Preston: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Monotypes and Ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, illustrated
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