MARGARET PRESTON
1875-1963

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, VICTORIA

MARGARET PRESTON

1875-1963
Spilt Milk (1903)

oil on canvas on board
signed 'M.M.' lower right
32 x 39.5 cm

• Lot Sold $36,000 (Hammer Price)
• $43,920 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Wana Holding, gift from the artist
Mr Thomas V. Ottaway
Private Collection, Melbourne, by descent from the above

Exhibited

South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 22 June - 15 July 1903, no. 28
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 (label verso)

Literature

Ian North, The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980, cat. O.3, illustrated Deborah Edwards, Rose Peel and Denise Mimmochi, Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 19, 20 (illustrated), 282 Denise Mimmochi, Margaret Preston: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Monotypes and Ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, illustrated