BLACK SWANS, 1937
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DORRIT BLACK
(1891 – 1951)
BLACK SWANS, 1937
colour linocut on paper
23.5 x 32.0 cm
edition: 27/30
signed lower right with artist’s monogram
signed, numbered, and inscribed with title below image
Estimate:
8,000 – 12,000
Sold for $9,760 (inc. BP) in Auction 42 - 4 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance
Private collection, Adelaide, a gift from the artist
Thence by descent
Private collection, Adelaide
Sotheby’s, Sydney, 25 November 2014, lot 58
Private collection, Melbourne
Literature
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. DB 36, p. 162 (illus. another impression from edition of 50)