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Lot 7
Dorrit Black(1891-1951)Wool Quilt Makers, 1940-41
25 November 2020, 18:00 AEDT
Melbourne, ArmadaleSold for AU$46,740 inc. premium
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Dorrit Black (1891-1951)
Wool Quilt Makers, 1940-41
monogrammed in image upper left: 'DB'
colour linocut on thin oriental laid paper, printed from five blocks in red, yellow, black, blue and dark brown
23.5 x 31.5cm (9 1/4 x 12 3/8in).
monogrammed in image upper left: 'DB'
colour linocut on thin oriental laid paper, printed from five blocks in red, yellow, black, blue and dark brown
23.5 x 31.5cm (9 1/4 x 12 3/8in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
The Estate of the Artist, Adelaide
Private collection, Queensland
EXHIBITED
Dorrit Black, (Retrospective), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1945, cat. 53 (another example)
Contemporary Group, Farmers Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, 1946, cat. 4 (another example)
Dorrit Black (Solo), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1949, cat. 55 (another example)
Print, Drawing and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, 1952, cat. 15 (another example)
Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April - 29 May 1999, cat. 15A (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 - 1951, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 2011, cat. 45 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June - 7 September 2014 (another example)
LITERATURE
Esmond George, 'Womans Wide Range', The Mail, Adelaide, 27 October 1945, p. 7
Esmond George, 'Paintings displayed by Dorrit Black', The Mail, Adelaide, 14 May 1949, p. 6
Ian North, The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, p. 133
Margaret Rolfe, Patchwork Quilts in Australia, Greenhouse Publications, 1987, p. 82 (illus. another example)
Shirley Cameron Wilson, From Shadow into Light: South Australian Women Artists Since Colonisation, Delmont, South Australia, 1988, p. 97
Jeanette Hoorn, Strange Women: Essays in Art and Gender, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1994, p. 50 (illus. another example)
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Adlershot, 1995, pp. 163, cat. DB42 (illus. another example)
Gordon Samuel & Nicola Perry, The Cutting Edge of Modernity: Linocuts of the Grosvenor School, Lund Humphries, London, 2002, p. 70
Roger Butler, Printed Images by Australian Artists 1885-1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, p. 242 (illus. another example)
Catherine Speck, Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars, Reaktion Books, London, 2014, p. 156, pl. 100 (illus. another example)
Denise Mimmocchi, Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, p.179 (illus. another example)
Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 94 and 206 (illus. another example)
Gordon Samuel, Cutting Edge: Modern British Printmaking, Bloomsbury, United States, 2019
RELATED WORKS
Other impressions from this edition are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
