A composition of striking balance and colour, Native Flowers exemplifies Preston’s early maturity in the woodcut medium. Its auction history underlines its rarity: only two appearances since 1987. Collectors value its compact scale and finely judged hand-colouring, which typify Preston’s efforts to elevate Australian native flora into modern design.
Native Flowers, 1925
EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition of woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat. no. 10 (another impression).
LITERATURE
Butler, Roger. The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné. Canberra: Australian National Gallery/Oxford University Press, 1987, cat. 89.
A composition of striking balance and colour, Native Flowers exemplifies Preston’s early maturity in the woodcut medium. Its auction history underlines its rarity: only two appearances since 1987. Collectors value its compact scale and finely judged hand-colouring, which typify Preston’s efforts to elevate Australian native flora into modern design.
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