MARGARET PRESTON
1875-1963
N.S.W. Everlasting Flowers 1929
Estimate $80,000 – $100,000
PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR HAROLD SLATER AND MRS CONNIE SLATER, SYDNEY
MARGARET PRESTON
1875-1963
N.S.W. Everlasting Flowers 1929
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Margaret Preston 1929' lower left
46 x 46 cm
- Lot Sold SOLD (Hammer Price)
Provenance
Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney
Mr Gregory Roarty, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1929
Australian Paintings, Prints and Books, Christie's Australia, Melbourne, 14 April 1986, lot 227, illustrated
Mr Harold and Mrs Connie Slater, Sydney
Australian + International Fine Art, Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 7 December 2005, lot 17, illustrated
Private Collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above
Exhibited
Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 7-31 August 1929, no. 10, 20 gns
Sydney Still Life, The Painters Gallery, Sydney, 17 June – 5 July 1986, no. 29
Autumn Exhibition, Peter Gant Fine Art, Melbourne, 17 May – 14 June 1988, no. 1, illustrated
Australian Paintings: Traditional, Modern & Contemporary, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 18 February – 16 March 2003, no. 2, illustrated
Traditional Australian Painting 1880-1925, Savill Galleries, Melbourne, 17 July – 17 August 2003, no. 2, illustrated
Australian Paintings: Summer 2004, Savill Galleries, Sydney, 2 March – 3 April 2004, no. 19, illustrated
Literature
Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert, Margaret Preston Recent Paintings, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1929, plate 15
The Home Annual, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1933, p. 23 (illustrated)
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