DUTCH HOUSES, c.1929

The Estate of the late James O. Fairfax AC
Sydney
30 August 2017
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DORRIT BLACK

(1891 – 1951)
DUTCH HOUSES, c.1929

colour linocut

27.0 x 20.5 cm

edition unknown
Estimate: 
$15,000 – 25,000
Sold for $39,040 (inc. BP) in Auction 50 - 30 August 2017, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection, Adelaide
Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney
The Estate of the late James O. Fairfax AC, New South Wales and Bridgestar Pty Ltd, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1999

Exhibited

British Linocuts, Redfern Gallery, London, 1930, cat. 78 (another example)
Paintings by Dorrit Black, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 10 September 1930, cat. 30 (another example)
British Lino-cuts, Shanghai Art Club, Shanghai, 1931, cat. 60 (another example)
Dorrit Black (retrospective), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1945, cat. 60 (another example)
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Hahndorf Academy Gallery, Adelaide, 1981, cat. 17 (another example)
Claude Flight and his Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 December 1982 – 1 March 1983; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 October – 29 November 1992; Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, 19 March – 16 May 1993 and Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Auckland, 3 June – 18 July 1993, cat. 20 (another example)
The Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 7 (label attached verso)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

Literature

North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, MacMillan and Art Gallery of South Australia, 1979, cat. L10, pl. 9, pp. 39 (illus.) 41, 131
Coppel, S., Lino Cuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Leicester, United Kingdom, in association with National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB8, p. 154 (illus.)
Lock-Weir, T., Dorrit Black. Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 52, 55 (illus.), 200