Margaret PRESTON

Gardenia
1929

Medium

oil on canvas

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

Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

54.2 × 45.8 cm

Inscription

inscribed in black pencil Margaret R Preston / 1929

Accession Number

1146-4

Department

Australian Painting

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1942
© Margaret Preston/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation

Reproduction requests

Gallery location

Not on display

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

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Gardenia
1929