GA034 - Australian and International Art

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JOHN BAIRD (BORN 1954)
Unlikely Floral 2010
oil and collage on board
signed, dated and titled verso:
JOHN BAIRD JUNE 2010 UNLIKELY FLORAL
122 x 92cm
$800–1,200
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MARGARET PRESTON (1875-1963)
The Snail 1949
colour stencil on black card
signed with initials lower right: MP
30.5 x 23cm
PROVENANCE
Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
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
Australian Print Survey, National Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide, October 1963-November 1963, and touring in
1984 to: Art Gallery of New South Wales; Newcastle Region
Art Gallery; Queensland Art Gallery; Tasmanian Museum and
Art Gallery; National Gallery of Victoria
Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
27 December 1985-9 February 1986
LITERATURE
Butel, E., Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant
Rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, pp. 70, 92, cat. P.60
(illus. another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue
Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987,
p. 278, cat. 360 (illus., another example).
$10,000–15,000