Merryn Schriever
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Lot 45
Dorrit Black(1891-1951)Study for painting 'The Incinerator', c. 1933
14 November 2018, 18:00 AEDT
Sydney, WoollahraSold for AU$2,440 inc. premium
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Dorrit Black (1891-1951)
Study for painting 'The Incinerator', c. 1933
pencil on paper, reclining figure verso
24.5 x 20.0cm (9 5/8 x 7 7/8in).
pencil on paper, reclining figure verso
24.5 x 20.0cm (9 5/8 x 7 7/8in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
The estate of the artist, Adelaide
Ruth Goble, the artist's niece
thence by descent
Private collection, New South Wales
RELATED WORK
The Incinerator, c.1933, oil on cardboard, 55.5 x 46.0cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Of the oil painting 'The Incinerator', curator Tracey Lock notes: 'This landscape, with a glimpse of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on the skyline, is centred on a modern incinerator designed by the architect Walter Burley Griffith for Willoughby Municipal Council. The site had been proposed for an incinerator in 1927 but after a different site was stopped by citizen action, work began at this Small Street site in August 1933 and was completed in May 1934. Black left Sydney in late 1933; the structure lacks detail and the chimney seems too tall, so the painting was probably based on an incomplete state of the building.' 1
1. Tracey Lock, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 191
