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An image of Hollyhocks by Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston

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

Title
Hollyhocks
Other titles:
Holyhocks
Year
(circa 1928)
Media category
Print
Materials used
woodcut, printed in black ink, hand coloured with gouache on thin wove paper
Edition
19th print from unknown edition
Dimensions

29.5 x 30.2cm blockmark; 31.6 x 32.6cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed in block to print l.r., incised "MP.". Signed l.r. beneath blockmark, pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1964
Accession number
DA36.1964
Copyright
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (4)

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 133 (colour illus.). cat.no. 122

Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 24 (colour illus.), 88. cat.no. P.24

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 143 (colour illus.). cat.no. 122

The Australian woman's world: a town & country journal for Australian women [vol. 9, no. 100] Apr 1929, Apr 1929, front cover (colour illus.).

Exhibition history (3)

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

Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005.

Margaret Preston retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006.