Merryn Schriever
Managing Director, Australia
Lot 8
Dorrit Black(1891-1951)Chapman's Pool, 1935
25 November 2020, 18:00 AEDT
Melbourne, ArmadaleSold for AU$30,750 inc. premium
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Dorrit Black (1891-1951)
Chapman's Pool, 1935
colour linocut on thin paper printed from four blocks in blue, ochre, Indian red, black
18.2 x 30.0cm (7 3/16 x 11 13/16in).
colour linocut on thin paper printed from four blocks in blue, ochre, Indian red, black
18.2 x 30.0cm (7 3/16 x 11 13/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Theodore Bruce, Adelaide, 15 June 1982, lot 94
Private collection, Adelaide
EXHIBITED
British Lino-cuts, Ward Gallery, London, 1935, cat. 44 (another example)
Contemporary Group, Farmers Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, 1935, cat. 80
Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours and Lino Cuts by Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of the Arts, Adelaide, 7 - 23 July 1938, cat. 36 (another example)
Dorrit Black (retrospective), Royal South Australian Society of the Arts, Adelaide, 1945, cat. 57 (another example) as 'Chapman's Pool, Dorset'
Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 1 (another example)
Dorrit Black Memorial Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of the Arts, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 62 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June - 7 September 2014 (another example)
LITERATURE
Art in Australia, Third Series, November 1938, p. 63 (illus., another example)
Ian North, The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, pl. 30, pp. 69 (illus., another example), 132
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Adlershot, 1995, pp. 159, cat. DB27 (illus. another example)
Gordon Samuel & Nicola Perry, The Cutting Edge of Modernity: Linocuts of the Grosvenor School, Lund Humphries, London, 2002, p. 70
Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p.158 and p.203 (illus. another example)
RELATED WORK
Another impression from this edition is held in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Study for linocut 'Chapman's Pool', 1934, 23.5 x 33.0cm, Bonhams, Sydney, 14 November 2018, lot 51, now in a private collection
"Chapman's Pool, a popular bathing spot Black visited in July 1934 while on a sketching trip at Worth Matravers on the Dorset coast with Claude Flight and Edith Lawrence".1
1. Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 203
