Title
Native flowers
(circa 1927)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (circa 1927)
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, printed in black ink, hand coloured with gouache on thick cream laid Japanese paper
- Edition
- 3rd proof from an unknown edition, hand coloured
- Dimensions
- 29.6 x 29.2 cm blockmark; 40.9 x 33.4 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed in block to print l.l., incised "M.P.".
Signed l.r. beneath blockmark, pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.- Credit
- Purchased 1976
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 216.1976
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Dec 1985–09 Feb 1986
Cover up: the art of magazine covers in Australia, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, 19 May 1995–13 Aug 1995
Cover up: the art of magazine covers in Australia, The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, 31 Aug 1995–08 Oct 1995
Cover up: the art of magazine covers in Australia, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 26 Oct 1995–31 Oct 1996
Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, 07 Sep 2002–13 Oct 2002
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005
Margaret Preston retrospective, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 12 Nov 2005–29 Jan 2006
Margaret Preston retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 May 2006–13 Aug 2006
Sydney Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Jul 2013–07 Oct 2013
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Bibliography
Referenced in 8 publications
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Paul Brobbel, Wystan Curnow and Roger Horrocks (Editors), The long dream of waking: New perspectives on Len Lye, Christchurch, 2017, 89, 90 (colour illus.), 212.
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 88. cat.no. P.20
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 132 (colour illus.). cat.no. 121
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 142 (colour illus.). cat.no. 121
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Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, 'Transitions 1920s', pg. 61-150, Sydney, 2005, 80, 82, 85 (colour illus.).
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Denise Mimmocchi, Sydney moderns: art for a new world, 'Still-life as laboratory table', pg. 198-213, Sydney, 2013, 203 (colour illus.), 315, 323.
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Susannah Smith, Look, 'Women's work: their diverse and significant contribution to the modernist art scene', pg. 13-15, Sydney, Aug 2013, 14.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Home: an Australian quarterly, Sydney, Feb 1928, front cover (colour illus.). titled 'Australian Flowers and Fruit'
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