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Margaret PRESTON

Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 1875 – Mosman, New South Wales, Australia 1963

• Movements: Germany, France 1904-07, France, England, Ireland 1912-19

Bird of Paradise. 1925
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Print, relief
Technique: woodcut, printed in black ink, from one block; hand-coloured
Impression: 8/50
Edition: edition of 50, hand-coloured
Primary Insc: Signed lower right below printed image in black pencil, 'Margaret Preston'. Dated lower left below printed image in black pencil, '-25'. Titled lower left below printed image in black pencil, 'Bird of paradise-'. Inscribed lower left below printed image in black pencil, '8th proof'.
printed image 39.6 h x 42.6 w cm
sheet 43.2 h x 42.8 w cm
Purchased 1961
Accession No: NGA 61.45
Subject: Australia, Art style: Japanese influence 1890s-1950s
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate. Licensed by Viscopy

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Margaret PRESTON

Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 1875 – Mosman, New South Wales, Australia 1963

• Movements: Germany, France 1904-07, France, England, Ireland 1912-19

Bird of Paradise. 1925

Cat Raisonné: Butler (1987), 85
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Print, relief
Technique: woodcut, printed in black ink, from one block; hand-coloured
Support: thin cream Japanese tissue paper
Manufacturer's Mark: no manufacturer's mark
Edition State: published state
Impression: 8/50
Edition: edition of 50, hand-coloured
Primary Insc: Signed lower right below printed image in black pencil, 'Margaret Preston'. Dated lower left below printed image in black pencil, '-25'. Titled lower left below printed image in black pencil, 'Bird of paradise-'. Inscribed lower left below printed image in black pencil, '8th proof'.
printed image 39.6 h x 42.6 w cm
sheet 43.2 h x 42.8 w cm
Purchased 1961
Accession No: NGA 61.45
Subject: Australia, Art style: Japanese influence 1890s-1950s
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate. Licensed by Viscopy

Exhibition History
• • 2010
  • • In the Japanese Manner NGA
• • 2008
  • • Yin-Yang: China in Australia
    • S.H. Ervin Gallery
• • 2007
  • • The story of Australian printmaking NGA
• • 2005
  • • Margaret Preston: Art and Life
    • Art Gallery of New South Wales
    • Art Gallery of South Australia
    • NGV Australia
    • Queensland Art Gallery
• • 2004
  • • Margaret Preston Australian Printmaker NGA
• • 2002
  • • Margaret Preston in Mosman
    • Mosman Art Gallery & Community Centre
• • 1989
  • • The Prints of Margaret Preston NGA
• • 1988
  • • The Prints of Margaret Preston
    • Art Gallery of Western Australia
    • Newcastle Region Art Gallery

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