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Dorrit Black
(1891-1951)
Harbour, Veere, 1929

21 November 2019, 18:00 AEDT
Melbourne, Armadale

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Dorrit Black (1891-1951)

Harbour, Veere, 1929
linocut on cream wove paper, printed from one block in black
28.0 x 21.5cm (11 x 8 7/16in).

Footnotes

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

EXHIBITED
Paintings by Dorrit Black, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1930, cat. 29, as Dutch Fishing Harbour (another example)
Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours and Lino Cuts by Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1938, cat. 32 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Retrospective, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1945, cat. 52, (another example) as Veere Harbour
Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1949, cat. 60, (another example) as Veere Harbour
Dorrit Black, 1891-1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, then touring, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales; The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, 1975-76, cat. 53 (another example)
Dorrit Black Collection, Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney 1999, cat. 6 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Retrospective Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide 2011, cat. 26 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June - 7 September 2014 (another example)

LITERATURE
H.E. Fuller, 'Honesty of Purpose Marks Modern Art Show', The Advertiser, Adelaide, 7 July 1938, p. 2
Ian North, The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, pl. 19, p. 42 (illus.), cat. L6, p. 131
Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 200 (illus.)

RELATED WORK
Another example from this edition is held in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

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