Merryn Schriever
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Lot 51
Dorrit Black(1891-1951)Study for linocut 'Chapman's Pool', 1934
14 November 2018, 18:00 AEDT
Sydney, WoollahraSold for AU$21,960 inc. premium
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Dorrit Black (1891-1951)
Study for linocut 'Chapman's Pool', 1934
inscribed lower right: 'Dorrit Black Working Drawing for Lino Cut / "Chapman's Pool" SK BK V'
watercolour and pencil on paper, Landscape with Boats, pencil on paper verso
23.5 x 33.0cm (9 1/4 x 13in).
inscribed lower right: 'Dorrit Black Working Drawing for Lino Cut / "Chapman's Pool" SK BK V'
watercolour and pencil on paper, Landscape with Boats, pencil on paper verso
23.5 x 33.0cm (9 1/4 x 13in).
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, p. 158 (illus.), 196 (illus.)
RELATED WORK
Chapman's Pool, 1935, colour linocut in four colours on oriental paper, 22.7 x 32.4cm, held in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Produced by Black whilst on her third overseas trip, this watercolour was most likely painted in England whilst on the month-long summer sketching trip to the coast. Encouraged by Claude Flight to expand her use of watercolours, Black produced a number of watercolour sketches which formed the compositional foundation for later linocuts. This example, amongst others, clearly shows Black's precise gridding and working equations for the golden mean which underpinned her compositions.
