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Dorrit Black(1891-1951)Old Church, Veere, c.1933
21 November 2019, 18:00 AEDT
Melbourne, ArmadaleSold for AU$30,500 inc. premium
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Dorrit Black (1891-1951)
Old Church, Veere, c.1933
titled, numbered and signed below image: 'Old Church, Veere, 6/50, Dorrit Black'; monogrammed in image lower centre: 'DB'
colour linocut on thin cream oriental wove paper, printed from five blocks in yellow ochre, light brown, dark red and grey, emerald green and dark blue
25.0 x 20.5cm (9 13/16 x 8 1/16in).
titled, numbered and signed below image: 'Old Church, Veere, 6/50, Dorrit Black'; monogrammed in image lower centre: 'DB'
colour linocut on thin cream oriental wove paper, printed from five blocks in yellow ochre, light brown, dark red and grey, emerald green and dark blue
25.0 x 20.5cm (9 13/16 x 8 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
Exhibition of Prints, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, 1933, cat. 3, (another example) as The Old Church
British Lino-cuts, Ward Gallery, London, 1934, cat. 93 (another example)
Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide 1952, cat. 8 (another example)
Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney 1999, cat. 11 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June - 7 September 2014 (another example)
LITERATURE
Ian North, The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L7, p. 131
Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p.203 (illus. another example)
RELATED WORK
Another example from this edition is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
