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FOREWORD

THIS portfolio of exquisite reproductions may be taken as representing the latest phase in the artistic development of one who must be regarded as the most individualistic explorer in the regions of colour and pattern that Australia has ever produced It is only a few years now since the name of Margaret Preston startlingly revealed itself in the largest of capital letters. The first symptoms of her success were demonstrated by the sudden eagerness with which her fellow craftsmen purchased and treasured her small output. It was as though they had been instantaneously blessed by revelation. Somebody had come among them speaking with a new and broader accent and they were astonished and enchanted by her speech. There is some distance between the appreciation of the artist-connoisseur and that of the average picture collector and the lapse of time between the first discernment of her genius and public applause was only to be expected. The subtleties of her particular idiom already are being vaguely approved by the many while the members of her growing band of ardent admirers, who perceive the finer intricacies of

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