Lot 22
Dorrit Black(1891-1951)Backs of Homes, Veere
16 December 2021, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £16,500 inc. premium
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Dorrit Black (1891-1951)
Backs of Homes, Veere (Coppel DB.9)
Linocut printed in black, red, yellow, blue, circa 1929, on cream oriental laid paper, initialled in pencil lower right image and numbered 6/50 in pencil in the left margin, annotated by Claude Flight Backs of Houses, Veere, Dorrit Black, £2.2.0 in black ink in the left margin, some minor surface defects, otherwise in good condition, framed
Block 232 x 310mm. (9 1/8 x 12 1/4in.); Sheet 237 x 306mm. (9 3/8 x 12in.)
Linocut printed in black, red, yellow, blue, circa 1929, on cream oriental laid paper, initialled in pencil lower right image and numbered 6/50 in pencil in the left margin, annotated by Claude Flight Backs of Houses, Veere, Dorrit Black, £2.2.0 in black ink in the left margin, some minor surface defects, otherwise in good condition, framed
Block 232 x 310mm. (9 1/8 x 12 1/4in.); Sheet 237 x 306mm. (9 3/8 x 12in.)
Footnotes
Claude Flight wrote to Dorrit Black on 11 June 1930 to acknowledge receipt of impressions 1/50 to 9/50 from the artist: "Backs of Houses Veere" is simply delightful in every way. I love it. It is the best example I have seen yet of how to do a lino-cut.
Linocuts of the Machine Age by Stephen Coppel, Scolar Press, 1995, p.154
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