A MILE OUT OF ALICE SPRINGS, 1949

Important Fine Art + Aboriginal Art
Sydney
2 December 2015
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MARGARET PRESTON

1875 – 1963
A MILE OUT OF ALICE SPRINGS, 1949

colour stencil on black card

25.0 x 31.0 cm

signed with initials lower right: M.P.

Estimate: 
$15,000 – 20,000
Sold for $67,100 (inc. BP) in Auction 41 - 2 December 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Ure Smith collection, Sydney

Exhibited

Gouache Stencils by Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, September 1949
Margaret Preston Survey (Nine Paintings and Thirteen Prints by Margaret Preston), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 June – 16 September 1959
Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring in 2006 to, Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (another example)

Literature

Butel, E., Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, p. 92, cat. P.61 ( illus. another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, p. 278, cat. 359 (illus., another example)
Edwards, D., ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s – 1950s', Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p. 241 (illus. another example)