MARGARET PRESTON
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(1875 – 1963) MOLONG SHOW, 1946 also known as THE FAIRGROUND mixed media on canvas 42.5 x 54.5 cm signed and dated lower left: M. PRESTON. / 1946 ESTIMATE: $80,000 – 100,000
PROVENANCE Mary Alice Evatt, Sydney David Dyring, Melbourne, a gift from the above, until 1980 Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 5 November 1980, lot 722 (as ‘Country Carnival’) Private collection, Sydney Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne, acquired from the above Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in October 1986 Private collection, Melbourne Niagara Galleries, Melbourne The Reg Grundy AC OBE and Joy Chambers–Grundy Collection, acquired from the above in 1998 (stamped and label attached verso) EXHIBITED Society of Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Education Department, Sydney, 24 August – 11 September 1946, cat. 185 Australian art: Colonial to Modern, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 15 – 26 April 1985, cat. 77 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, as ‘The fairground’) Australian Paintings 1824 – 1940, Christopher Day Gallery, Sydney, winter 1985, cat. 45 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, as ‘The fairground’) Australian Women Artists; Paintings, Watercolours and Prints, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne, 19 September – 8 October 1986 (as ‘The Fairground’) Blue chip choice, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, March – April 1998, cat. 24 (as ‘The fairground’) 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; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 18 February – 7 May 2006; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 May – 13 August 2006 (label attached verso)
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LITERATURE Butler, R., The prints of Margaret Preston, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005, p. 351 Edwards, D., Margaret Preston Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 184 (illus.), 185, 285 Margaret Preston Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, CD-ROM compiled by Mimmocchi, D., with Edwards, D., and Peel, R.
