Margaret Preston
(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)
- Title
- (Australian wild flowers)
- Other titles:
- Native pea - Australian wild flowers
Native pea - Place of origin
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Mosman →
Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1923
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas on cardboard on hardboard
- Dimensions
-
42.5 x 42.0cm board; 53.6 x 53.7 x 5.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l. corner, pencil "M. Preston/ 1923". Signed and dated l.r. corner, pencil "Margaret Preston/ 1932".
- Credit
- Gift of Pauline Evatt 1985
- Accession number
- 105.1985
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (7)
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Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston, Sydney, 2005, 75.
Margaret Preston: Catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics 2005, 2005, (colour illus.). Artworks: paintings 1923.
'Collecting: Petal pushers' by Antonia Williams, pg. 65-67., Vogue living Sep 2004-Oct 2004, Sep 2004-Oct 2004, 67 (colour illus.).
Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 76 (colour illus.), 85. cat.no. O.4
Australian Art Association annual exhibition (1923), Melbourne, Nov 1923. possibly cat.no. 133; not paginated
The Sydney Morning Herald 14 Sep 1923, 14 Sep 1923, page unknown. Review of Society of Artists annual exhibition 15 September - 13 October 1923: "Margaret Preston's still life pictures are many and amongst them the bowl of flowers against a strong light (No. 127) is good".
Society of Artists (Australia, estab. 1895, closed 1965), Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Sydney, 1923. possibly cat.no. 127; price 15 gns; titled "Flowers"; not paginated
- Exhibition history (3)
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Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1923), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], 15 Sep 1923–13 Oct 1923.
Australian Art Association (1923), Athenaeum Gallery, 13 Nov 1923–24 Nov 1923.
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Dec 1985–09 Feb 1986.
