Title
Rocks and waves
(circa 1929)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Rocks and Waves, Balmoral, N.S.W.
- Date
- (circa 1929)
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, black ink hand coloured with gouache on thin cream laid Japanese tissue
- Edition
- 1st proof from unknown edition, hand coloured
- Dimensions
- 22.4 x 30.1 cm blockmark; 27.0 x 35.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed in block to print l.l., incised "M.P.".
Signed l.r., pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.- Credit
- Purchased 1976
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 141.1976
- 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 7 exhibitions
Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jan 1990–11 Mar 1990
Art Deco: from Sydney cinemas and pubs to skyscrapers, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 12 Jun 1999–05 Sep 1999
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
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
Destination Sydney, S.H. Ervin Gallery, The Rocks, 11 Dec 2015–21 Feb 2016
O'Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 11 Mar 2017–11 Jun 2017
O'Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2017–02 Oct 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 88, 89 (colour illus.). cat.no. P.23, note that the title of this print in this catalogue is "Rocks and waves, Balmoral, N.S.W."
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 150 (colour illus.). cat.no. 133
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 140 (colour illus.). cat.no. 133
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Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, 'Transitions 1920s', pg. 61-150, Sydney, 2005, 82, 86 (colour illus.).
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Ian North, The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 55 (illus.). cat.no. P.21, note that the title of this print in this catalogue is "Rocks and waves, Balmoral, N.S.W.".
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Kay Vernon, Harbour hymns, city songs: visions of Sydney from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 93
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