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Lot 34
Dorrit Black(1891-1951)Argentina (The Spanish Dancer), c.1928-29
7 June 2016, 18:30 AEST
Melbourne, ArmadaleSold for AU$48,800 inc. premium
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Dorrit Black (1891-1951)
Argentina (The Spanish Dancer), c.1928-29
titled, numbered and signed below image: 'The Spanish Dancer, 13/50, Dorrit Black.'
colour linocut on thin laid paper printed from five blocks in light blue, crimson, turquoise, brown and yellow ochre
19.5 x 16.0cm (7 11/16 x 6 5/16in).
titled, numbered and signed below image: 'The Spanish Dancer, 13/50, Dorrit Black.'
colour linocut on thin laid paper printed from five blocks in light blue, crimson, turquoise, brown and yellow ochre
19.5 x 16.0cm (7 11/16 x 6 5/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
possibly Ward Gallery, London
Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne
Beth Mayne, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 1983
EXHIBITED
First Exhibition of British Lino-cuts, Redfern Gallery, London, 1929, cat.8 (another example)
Paintings by Dorrit Black, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1930, cat.27, as The Spanish Dancer (another example)
Exhibition of Lino-cuts, Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 1932, cat.4 as The Spanish Dancer
Exhibition of paintings by the late Dorrit Black, Hahndorf Academy Gallery, Adelaide, 1959, cat.35 (another example)
A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April - 5 May 1978, cat. 184
Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1999, cat.4 (another example)
Dorrit Black (1891 - 1951), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 2011, cat.13 (another example)
Dorrit Black: unseen forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June - 7 September 2014 (another example)
LITERATURE
Chris Deutsher and Roger Butler, A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April - 5 May 1978, cat. 184
Ian North, The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L8, p. 131
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat.DB5, p. 152
Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: unseen forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 147 (illus., another example), 152
RELATED WORK
Another impression from this edition is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
