Colour monotype, signed and inscribed lower right: Monotype Margaret Preston. inscribed lower left: Pandanus, Elsy [sic] falls. NT.. Provenance: Mrs E. de Mestre, by 1949. Private collection, Melbourne. Thence by descent, private collection, Melbourne. Deutscher + Hackett, Melbourne, 29 November 2017, lot 4. Private collection, Victoria. Exhibited:
Drawings, Sculpture Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society [Fourth State Exhibition], Education Department's Art Gallery, Sydney, 6-23 March 1948, cat.60. References: Ure Smith, S.,
Margaret Preston's Monotypes, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1949, p.66 (as
Elsey Falls, N.T.). Butler, R.,
The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2005, p.270, cat.313. Edwards, D., et al.,
Margaret Preston: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Monotypes and Ceramics [Cd-Rom], Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005 (as
Pandanus - Elsey Falls c1947)., 29 x 32 cm (image)