MARGARET PRESTON
1875-1963

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY

MARGARET PRESTON

1875-1963
Sturt's Desert Pea (1925)

woodblock print, hand-coloured on paper
signed 'MP' in image lower left; inscribed 'Sturt's desert Pea' lower left; signed 'Margaret Preston' lower right
edition of 50
18.5 x 24.5 cm

• Lot Sold $17,500 (Hammer Price)
• $21,350 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Private Collection, Sydney

Exhibited

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

Literature

Roger Butler, The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. no. 88, p. 109 (illustrated, another example)