Title
Protea
1925
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1925
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, printed in black ink, hand-coloured with gouache on thin ivory laid tissue
- Edition
- 11th proof from an edition of 50, hand coloured
- Dimensions
- 24.8 x 24.6 cm blockmark; 37.4 x 34.5 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed in block to print l.r., incised "M.P." ['P' in reverse].
Signed l.r. beneath blockmark, pencil "Margaret Preston". Dated l.l. beneath blockmark, pencil "... 25".
Dated l.l., pencil "... 25".- Credit
- Purchased 1976
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 176.1976
- 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 4 exhibitions
Art Deco: from Sydney cinemas and pubs to skyscrapers, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 12 Jun 1999–05 Sep 1999
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
Australian Collection Focus: Colour, Rhythm, Design - wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Mar 2010–11 Jul 2010
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 15 publications
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Michael Bowden, Art-isan: studio arts for VCE units 1-4, Port Melbourne, 2010, 102 (colour illus.).
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 29 (colour illus.), 87. cat.no. P.11
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 132 (colour illus.). cat.no. 106; NOTE: the uncoloured edition is reproduced
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Roger Arthur Butler and Chris Deutscher, A survey of Australian relief prints 1900/1950, Armadale, 1978, 20 (illus.). no. 25
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 122 (illus.). cat.no. 106
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Helen Campbell, Colour, rhythm, design: wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, 'Introduction', pg. 2, Sydney, 2010, 10 (colour illus.).
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Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, 'Transitions 1920s', pg. 61-150, Sydney, 2005, 80 (colour illus.).
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Jane Hylton, Modern Australian women: paintings & prints 1925-1945, Adelaide, 2000, 19 (colour illus.), 67, 70, 124. Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia
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Glenis Israel, Artwise: visual art 7-10, 'Chapter 5: Human-made: Structures and Objects', pg. 153-200, Milton, 2013, 176, 177 (colour illus.), 178..
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Ian North, The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 53 (illus.). cat.no. P.11
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Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 22], Sydney, Dec 1927, title page (illus., printed in blue), 68 (colour illus.). plate no. 33
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Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 14], Sydney, Dec 1925, 62 (illus.). titled 'Waratahs'
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Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 57], Sydney, 15 Nov 1934, title page (illus., printed in red).
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Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 61], Sydney, Nov 1935, 51 (illus., printed in brown).
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Home: an Australian quarterly, Sydney, Aug 1927, 26 (illus.).
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