Air travel 3: The pineapple plantation, 1947 – 49

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
26 August 2026
79

Dorrit Black

(1891 - 1951)
Air travel 3: The pineapple plantation, 1947 – 49

colour linocut on paper

18.0 x 22.0 cm (image)
21.0 x 31.0 cm (sheet)

artist’s proof<br>edition of 50

signed in image upper right with artist’s monogram

Estimate: 
$20,000 – $30,000
Provenance

Estate of the artist, Adelaide
Thence by descent
Helen Finlayson (née Black), Adelaide, 1951 [the artist's sister]
Margaret Michelmore (née Finlayson), Adelaide, a gift from the above
Estate of the above, Adelaide

Exhibited

Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, 10 – 21 May 1949, cat. 48 (another example)
Dorrit Black Memorial Exhibition
, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, 22 April – 2 May 1952, cat. 60 (another example)
The Drawing, Print and Watercolour Exhibition
, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Melbourne, opened 2 December 1952, cat. 11 (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951
, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1975, then touring to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales; The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1975 – 76, cat. 66 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces
, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

Literature

North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, cat. L.46, pl. 49C, pp. 105 (illus., another example, as ‘Air Travel – The Pineapple Plantation’), 106, 133
Coppel, S., Lino Cuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Leicester, United Kingdom, in association with National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB48, pl. 34, pp. 43 (illus., another example), 165 (illus., another example)
Lock, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, pp. 134, 164 (illus., another example), 206 (illus., another example)