Gardenia
1929
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 54.2 × 45.8 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in black pencil l.r.: 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 - Gallery location
- Gallery 8
Level 2, NGV Australia - 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
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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. - Framemaker
- Reproduction - crafted by the NGV
- Date
- 2002
- Materials
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timber and paint