Lot 42

Dorrit Black
(1891-1951)
Study for linocut 'Black Boys', 1938

Important Australian Art

14 November 2018, 18:00 AEDT

Sydney, Woollahra

AU$8,000 - AU$12,000

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Dorrit Black (1891-1951)

Study for linocut 'Black Boys', 1938
inscribed by the artist lower right with colour notations
watercolour and pencil on paper
26.0 x 23.0cm (10 1/4 x 9 1/16in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
The estate of the artist, Adelaide
Ruth Goble, the artist's niece
thence by descent
Private collection, New South Wales

EXHIBITED
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June - 7 September 2014

LITERATURE
Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 163 (illus.), 197 (illus.)

RELATED WORK
Black Boys, c.1938, colour linocut in six colours on thin ivory laid tissue, 26.2 x 22.9cm, held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

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