The 1920’s was a pivotal period in Australia and it was during this time that Margaret Preston emerged as a key figure in the modern movement. This magnificent work, The Urn, completed in the year of Preston’s first solo exhibition, depicts a colourful bouquet of native and European flowers, perhaps Preston’s most celebrated subject matter. Eclectic in her approach to painting, 1929 was a year f…

Provenance

Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney; Acquired from the above in 1929 by Frederic James Wallis; Marjorie Lillian Hornbrook (by descent); Thence by descent within the family

Exhibitions

Margaret Preston, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 7-31 August 1929, cat. 9 (20gns)

Literature

Deborah Edwards, 'Margaret Preston: Catalogue Raisonne of paintings, monotypes and ceramics,' Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005 (CD-Rom)