CORNER OF THE GARDEN, c.1936
DORRIT BLACK
colour linocut on paper
26.0 x 31.0 cm (image)
28.5 x 35.0 cm (sheet)
signed in image with artist’s monogram
signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: Corner of the Garden 2/50 Dorrit Black
Estate of Edith Lawrence, London
Thence by descent
Private collection, London
Bonhams, London, 16 December 2021, lot 23
Private collection, Sydney
Paintings by Dorrit Black, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 18 – 28 March 1936, cat. 26 (another example)
British Lino–cuts, Ward Gallery, London, 10 June – 8 July 1936, cat. 39 (another example)
Dorrit Black Memorial Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 63 (another example, as ‘The Garden’)
Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 20 (another example, as ‘The Garden’)
Exhibitions of Paintings by the late Dorrit Black, Hahndorf Academy Gallery, Adelaide, 1959, cat. 36 (another example, as ‘The Garden’)
Australian Women Artists: One Hundred Years 1840 – 1940, George Paton and Ewing Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2 – 27 September 1973; and touring, cat. 10 (another example, as ‘Garden’)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, and 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. 60 (another example)
Claude Flight and His Followers. The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 18 April – 12 July 1992, and touring, cat. 28 (another example)
Dorrit Black (1891 – 1951), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 24 April – 15 May 2011, cat. 33 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)
Spowers and Syme, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 13 August 2021 – 12 February 2022 (another example)
‘Art Exhibition. Miss Dorrit Black’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 18 March 1936, p. 12
Burke, J., Australian Women Artists: One Hundred Years 1840 – 1940, George Paton and Ewing Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1973, cat. 10, pp. 23, 37 (illus., another example, as ‘The Garden’)
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Macmillan, Melbourne and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, cat. L.32, pl. 19, pp. 73 (illus., another example), 132
Burke, J., Australian Women Artists: 1840 – 1940, Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1980, pl. 12, p. 96 (illus., another example), 162
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. DB 32, p. 161 (illus., another example)
Lock–Weir, T., Dorrit Black. Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 204 (illus., another example)
Samuel, G. (ed.), Cutting Edge. Modernist British Printmaking, Bloomsbury, London, 2019, pp. 50 – 51, 70, 75, 115 (illus., another example)
Noordhuis – Fairfax, S. (ed.), Spowers and Syme, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021, pp. 52 (illus., another example), 94