Margaret preston

Art market auction sales from the 1970s to 2025 for 829 works by artist Margaret Rose (MacPherson) Preston (1875-1963), and values for over 18,000 other Australian and New Zealand artists.

National Gallery of Australia on Instagram: “'You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the…”

Art market auction sales from the 1970s to 2025 for 829 works by artist Margaret Rose (MacPherson) Preston (1875-1963), and values for over 18,000 other Australian and New Zealand artists.

Without the footnote of its accompanying lid, the homely brown pot would almost appear to be painted as if in a state of suspended animation, an unlikely proposition of weightlessness given its sturdy and unremarkably utilitarian form. This is the ...

Margaret Preston (1875 – 1963) was a well-known Australian artist. She was highly influential during the 1920s to 1940s for her modernist works as a painter and printmaker and for introducing Aboriginal motifs into contemporary art. More artwork by Margaret Preston.

Margaret Preston Banksia - Method: printmaking Media: Silkcut Lino Material: Printmaking paper

Margaret Preston（Australian, 1875-1963） Banksia cobs 1933 oil on canvas

Dorrit Black, Grace Cossington Smith and Grace Crowley were some of many talented modernist women artists. But only with the advent of second wave feminism in the 1970s was their work properly acknowledged.

Art market auction sales from the 1970s to 2025 for 829 works by artist Margaret Rose (MacPherson) Preston (1875-1963), and values for over 18,000 other Australian and New Zealand artists.