Harbour Foreshore 1925

Margaret Preston (1875-1963)

Harbour Foreshore 1925

hand-coloured woodcut
24.5 x 18.5 cm

numbered, titled and signed below image

initialled within image

edition: 21st proof (edition of 50)

Provenance:

Private collection, South Australia

Estate of the above

Private collection, Adelaide

Exhibited:

Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November - 2 December 1925 (another example)

Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Dec 1985 - 9 Feb 1986 (another example)

Big Blue - The Painted Harbour, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Jun 1997 - 29 Mar 1998 (another example)

Margaret Preston: Art and Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July - 23 October 2005, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 12 November 2005 - 29 January 2006 (another example)

Destination Sydney, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 11 December 2015 - 21 February 2016 (another example)

Reference:

'Art Exhibition,' Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 18 November 1925, p.9

'The Studio: Drawings and Prints,' The Australasian, Melbourne, 28 November 1925, p.39

'Art Exhibition: Woodcuts, Drawings and Prints,' Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 13 December 1927, p.6

Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005, p.115, cat.79 (illus. p.115, another example)

Edwards, D., Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p.83 (illus., another example)

 

Estimate: $18000 - 24000

Result Hammer: $17000