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An image of Begonia by Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston

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

Title
Begonia
Year
(circa 1935)
Media category
Print
Materials used
woodcut, printed in black ink on thin ivory laid Japanese paper
Edition
Unknown edition, hand coloured
Dimensions

29.3 x 29.8cm blockmark; 36.8 x 35.9cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed in block to print l.l., incised "MP.". Signed l.r. beneath blockmark, pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1964
Accession number
DA39.1964
Copyright
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (4)

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 186, 187 (colour illus.). cat.no. 185

Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston, Sydney, 2005, 82, 156, 262, 263 (colour illus.).

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 174 175 (illus.). cat.no. 185

Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 89 (colour illus.). cat.no. P.29

Exhibition history (2)

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

Yin-Yang: China in Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 08 Aug 2008–28 Sep 2008.