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Gardenia
1929

Medium
oil on canvas

Measurements
54.2 × 45.8 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1942
© Margaret Preston/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Inscription
inscribed in black pencil l.r.: Margaret R Preston / 1929

Accession Number
1146-4

Department
Australian Painting

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Subjects (general)
Botanical Still Lifes

Subjects (specific)
flower (plant material) flower pieces flower vases Gardenia (genus) grey (colour)

Frame
Reproduction, 2002, based on frames contemporary with the painting and a photograph of the original frame from 1942

Frame

The former framing of Gardenia carries the John Thallon business label with a 24 Market Lane address which dates the frame anywhere from 1927 through to the 1960’s.
In this instance photographic evidence of the painting in a different frame dates the Thallon frame to after 1942, the year the painting was acquired.
It is possible the Thallon frame was put on the painting by the NGV.
A new frame, based on the 1942 photograph of the original frame, and other frames contemporary with the painting, was constructed in 2002.

Frame Details

Framemaker
Reproduction - crafted by the NGV

Date
2002

Materials

timber and paint