The fruit stall, c.1931

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
26 August 2026
6

Dorrit Black

(1891 - 1951)
The fruit stall, c.1931

colour linocut on paper

17.5 x 26.0 cm (image)
20.5 x 28.5 cm (sheet)

artist’s proof

edition of 50
signed below image lower right: Dorrit Black
inscribed with title and numbered below image lower left: The Fruit Stall

Estimate: 
$40,000 – $60,000
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
Private collection, Adelaide, a gift from the above

Exhibited

Spring Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of the Arts, Adelaide, opened 10 September 1940, cat. 67 (another example, as ‘The vegetable stall’)
The Drawing, Print and Watercolour Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society of South Australia, Adelaide, opened 2 December 1952, cat. 35 (another example)
Dorrit Black (1891 – 1951), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 24 April – 15 May 2011, cat. 46 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

Literature

Claude Flight letter to Dorrit Black, 26 October 1931
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.29, p. 132 (another example)
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. DB12, pp. 154, 155 (illus., another example)
Lock, T., Dorrit Black, Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 201 (illus., another example)