The Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April 29 May 1999, cat. AUD7,500 - AUD9,500, Description: 5/50 initialled in plate lower right: DB 20 x 26cm PROVENANCE: Sotheby's, Sydney, 17 November, 1988, lot 142 (label verso) EXHIBITIONS: First Exhibition of Linocuts, The Redfern Gallery, London 1929, cat. Confounding one critic with its display of ‘ultra-modern methods’3, the exhibition bewildered another with its interpretation of subject matter ‘in geometrical terms’ and radical ‘adventures in forms’.4 of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. The boatsheds, Mosman, Sydney, s. canvas on board Oil Painting (10x15in).
Condition: Excellent, Description: DORRIT BLACK (AUS) "Music" Decorative print Artwork is framed Frame size: 44cm x 46cm, Estimate: AUD800 - AUD1,200, Description:
(inverse version), Estimate: 166 (illus), Estimate:
ESSAY: The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia and Macmillan, Adelaide, 1979, cat O.18, p. 121. AUD8,000 - AUD12,000, Description: The artist did not include this work on her list of linocuts. from an edition of 50 LITERATURE: NOTE: This particular work was exhibited in the groundbreaking First Exhibition of Linocuts at The Redfern Gallery in London in 1929 (another example), which included seminal works from Grosvenor School Artist's Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews, curated by Claude Flight.
Private collection, Melbourne initialled in block lower left, Description: DORRIT BLACK Print Image size: 30cm x 27cm, Frame size: 60cm x 58cm. no. 20 x 16 cm
DORRIT BLACK, (1891 - 1951), BLACK SWANS, 1937, colour linocut on paper SIGNED: signed lower right with artists monogram signed, numbered, and inscribed with title below image DIMENSIONS: 23.5 - 32.0 cm PROVENANCE: Private collection, Adelaide, - gift from the artist Thence by descent Private collection, Adelaide Sothebys, Sydney, 25 November 2014, lot 58 Private collection, MelbourneLITERATURE: Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, United Kingdom, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat.
16, 10 gns LITERATURE Ian North, The Art of Dorrit Black, Macmillan, Melbourne & Sydney and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, p.121, cat no. DB11, pp. Simpson, C., ‘Geometry and Queer Colour’, ‘Tribute to Artist’, DORRIT BLACK Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. PROVENANCE: DORRIT BLACK (1891-1951) Farm Buildings watercolour on paper, Lot 102: DORRIT BLACK (1891-1951) Still Life (Pochoir Design) 1929, Lot 103: † Dorrit Black (1891-1951) Rooftops Paddington c.1925 Watercolour, Lot 103: DORRIT BLACK (1891-1951) The Big Serpentine c.1920 oil on canvas on board, Lot 108: Dorothea (Dorrit) Foster Black (1891-1951, Australia) Church on a Hill watercolour on paper, Lot 108: DORRIT BLACK (1891-1951) Orchestra Pit, Theatre Royal c.1935 colour linocut on thin cream wove paper, unumbered, Lot 117: DORRIT BLACK, (1891 – 1951), VIEW OF A BAY, SYDNEY HARBOUR, c.1921 – 22 , oil on canvas on board, Lot 123: DORRIT BLACK (1891-1951) Black Swans 1937 colour linocut, ed.33/50, Lot 124: DORRIT BLACK (1891-1951) Sketch for the Orchestra Pit, Theatre Royal c.1935 pencil on paper, Lot 132: DORRIT BLACK 1891-1951 The Big Serpentine (circa 1920) oil on cardboard, Lot 137: DORRIT BLACK, (1891 - 1951), BLACK SWANS, 1937, colour linocut on paper, Lot 144: DORRIT BLACK 1891-1951 Wildflowers (1920) watercolour on paper, Lot 161: DORRIT BLACK, "Music", offset lithograph, Lot 200: DORRIT BLACK 1891-1951 The Big Serpentine oil on cardboard 45.7 x 38 cm, Lot 202: DORRIT BLACK (1891-1951) The Castle, Taormina c.1928-29 colour linocut, ed. AUD4,000 - AUD6,000, Description: The Pot Plant, 1933, for its permanent collection.6 "The Almond Tree"