BUSH WIND MILL, 1927 – 28

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
19

DORRIT BLACK

(1891 – 1951)
BUSH WIND MILL, 1927 – 28

colour linocut

26.0 x 23.0 cm

edition: 10/50

numbered below image

Estimate: 
$10,000 – 15,000
Sold for $48,800 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
Provenance

possibly: Theodore Bruce, Adelaide, 15 June 1986, lot 96 (as ‘Watertank and Windmill’)
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne

Exhibited

Dorrit Black, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 10 – 20 September 1930, cat. 24 (another example, as ‘Bush Wind Mill’)
Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Arts Society, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 29 (another example)
Claude Flight and His Followers: The Linocut Movement between the Wars, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992 and touring, cat. 21 (another example, as ‘Bush Wind Mill, c.1930’)
Modern Australian Women: Paintings and prints 1925 – 1945, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 November 2000 – 25 February 2001, and touring (another example)
Dorrit Black, Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example, as ‘The Windmill’)

Literature

‘Miss Dorrit Black’s Pictures’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 11 September 1930, p. 7 (as ‘Bush Windmill’)
‘Tribute to Artist’, The Advertiser, Adelaide, 2 December 1952, p. 9
‘Unusual Sculpture for National Gallery’, The Advertiser, Adelaide, 24 December 1952, p. 5
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia and Macmillan, Adelaide, 1979, cat L.11, p. 131 (as ‘Bush Wind Mill, c.1930’)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB11, pp. 154 –155 (illus., another example, as ‘Bush Wind Mill, c.1930’)
Hylton, J., Modern Australian Women: Paintings and prints 1925 – 1945, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2000, pp. 57 (illus.), 58, 121 (another example, as ‘Bush Windmill, c.1930’)
Lock-Weir, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 160, 162 (illus.), 199 (illus., another example)