Title
Fish and blackboys
1955
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Mosman
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- 1955
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.2 x 45.8 cm stretcher; 57.9 x 60.3 x 6.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, black oil "M.PRESTON 55".
- Credit
- Marshall Bequest Fund 1955
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9138
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Mosman
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Society of Artists Spring Exhibition (1955), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 11 Aug 1955–30 Sep 1955
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1955, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Feb 1956–29 Feb 1956
Margaret Preston survey (Nine paintings and thirteen prints by Margaret Preston), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Jun 1959–16 Sep 1959
Margaret Preston (1964), Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 04 Apr 1964–30 Apr 1964
The art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 May 1980–22 Jul 1980
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Dec 1985–09 Feb 1986
Critic as Artist - the work of Cutler Footways, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, 25 May 2019–18 Aug 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Margaret Preston survey (Nine paintings and thirteen prints by Margaret Preston), Sydney, 1959. not paginated
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 69 (colour illus.), 86. cat.no. O.20
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Deborah Edwards and Rose Peel, Margaret Preston: Catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics, Sydney, 2005, (colour illus.). Artworks: paintings 1955.
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National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Purchases and Acquisitions for 1955 National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 1956, 8. cat.no. 16
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New South Wales Society of Artists, Society of Artists Annual Exhibition 1955, Sydney, 1955. cat.no. 36; price: 20 Gns.
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Ian North, The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 51 (illus.). cat.no. O.44
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