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An image of Nude 2 by Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston

(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)

Title
Nude 2
Other titles:
Nude
Year
(circa 1925)
Media category
Print
Materials used
woodcut, printed in black ink on thin ivory tissue
Edition
3rd proof from an edition of 50, uncoloured
Dimensions

12.7 x 12.8cm blockmark; 15.3 x 15.4cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed in block to print l.l., incised "M.P.". Not dated. Signed l.r., pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1984
Accession number
148.1984
Copyright
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (5)

AJIOKA Chiaki (Japan) (Author), Connie Tornatore-Loong (Australia) (Author), Japan in Sydney: Professor Sadler & modernism, 1920-30s, Sydney, 2011, 26, 137. cat.no. 34

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 102 (colour illus.). cat.no. 51

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 90 (illus.). cat.no. 51

Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 87 (illus.). cat.no. P.10

Ian North (New Zealand; Australia, b.1945) (Author), The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 54 (illus.). cat.no. P.16 Note that this publication refers to this print as"Nude".

Exhibition history (2)

Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Dec 1985–09 Feb 1986.

Professor Sadler, Japan and Australian modernism, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, 03 Apr 2011–24 Jul 2011.