Title
The snail
(1949)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (1949)
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour stencil, gouache on thin black card
- Edition
- from an edition of 3
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 21.3 cm image; 31.3 x 25.5 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. within image, black gouache "M.P.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1949
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8321
- 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 4 exhibitions
Gouache stencils by Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, Sep 1949 -
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1949, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Dec 1949–17 Feb 1950
Australian Print Survey, National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Oct 1963–Nov 1963
Australian Print Survey, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Jun 1964–28 Jun 1964
Australian Print Survey, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, Jul 1964 -
Australian Print Survey, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Aug 1964–Sep 1964
Australian Print Survey, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Sep 1964–Oct 1964
Australian Print Survey, National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], Melbourne, Nov 1964–Dec 1964
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Dec 1985–09 Feb 1986
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 70 (colour illus.), 92. cat.no. P.60
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 303 (colour illus.). cat.no. 360
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 278 (colour illus.). cat.no. 360
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New South Wales Society of Artists, Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Sydney, 1949, (illus.). Advertisement for Grosvenor Galleries.
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