AIR TRAVEL: PINEAPPLE PLANTATION, c.1949

Important Australian and International Fine Art
Sydney
13 September 2016
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DORRIT BLACK

(1891 – 1951)
AIR TRAVEL: PINEAPPLE PLANTATION, c.1949

colour linocut

18.5 x 22.0 cm

edition of 50

signed upper right in image with artist’s monogram

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000
Sold for $20,740 (inc. BP) in Auction 44 - 13 September 2016, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection, Canberra

Exhibited

Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, 10 May 1949, cat. 48 (another example)
Dorrit Black Memorial Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 60 (another example)
Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 11 (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1975, then touring: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales; The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1975 – 76, cat. 66 (another example)

Literature

North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, cat. L. 46, pl. 49C, p. 105 (illus., another example)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor school, Aldershot, Scolar Press Brookfield, 1995, cat. DB48