Mosman Bay Bridge c1920

Margaret Preston (1875-1963)

Mosman Bay Bridge c1920

hand-coloured woodblock print
20.5 x 27.0 cm

initialled within image

Provenance:

Private collection, acquired c1940s

Thence by descent, Mr Jim Walker, Western Australia

Exhibited:

Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat.2 (another example)

Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July - 23 October 2005; Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 12 November 2005 - 29 January 2006; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 18 February - 7 May 2006; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 May - 13 August 2006 (another example)

Reference:

Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, pp.73, 310, cat.13 (illus. p.73, another example)

Edwards, D., Peel, R. & Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p.285 (illus. p.65, another example)

Related Works:

Mosman Bay Bridge c1920, hand-coloured woodblock print, 21.5 x 27.5 cm, John Passmore Museum of Art collection, Sydney (the only other known example of the present image)

Wooden Bridge, Mosman 1925, hand-coloured woodblock print, 12.5 x 12.5 cm, edition 3/50, National Gallery of Australia collection, Canberra, purchased 1986

Mosman Bridge c1927, hand-coloured woodblock print, 25.5 x 19.0 cm, edition unknown (edition of approximately 125), Art Gallery of New South Wales collection, Sydney, bequest of Margaret Preston via W.G. Preston, 1986

Untitled (Mosman Bay Bridge) c1920, hand-coloured woodblock print, 20.5 x 26.5 cm, private collection; sold Deutscher-Menzies, Sydney, 23 September 2009, lot 64

Estimate: $20000 - 30000

Result Hammer: $22000