Margaret Preston
(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)
- Title
- Australian rock lily
- Year
- (circa 1933)
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, printed in black ink, hand coloured with gouache on off-white Japanese paper
- Edition
- 1st proof from an edition of 12, hand coloured
- Dimensions
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44.9 x 45.8cm blockmark; 47.0 x 51.5cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed in block to print l.r., incised "MP.". Signed l.r. beneath blockmark, pencil "(illeg.)". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1964
- Accession number
- DA32.1964
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (6)
-
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 180 (colour illus.), 181. cat.no. 175
Rhonda Davis (Australia) (Curator), Berowra visions: Margaret Preston & beyond, North Ryde, 2005, 61 (colour illus.), 72.
'Still-life lino cut', pg. 145-148., Art Smart 2000, 2000, 145 (colour illus.).
Nicholas Thomas (Australia) (Author), Possessions: indigenous art / colonial culture, London, 1999, 129, 130 (illus.), 295. illus.no. 75
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 170 (colour illus.), 171. cat.no. 175
Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 4 (colour illus.), 89. cat.no. P.34
- Exhibition history (3)
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Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, 07 Sep 2002–13 Oct 2002.
Berowra visions: Margaret Preston and beyond, Macquarie University Art Gallery, 05 Sep 2005–31 Oct 2005.
