Gum trees, 1933

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
26 August 2026
85

Dorrit Black

(1891 - 1951)
Gum trees, 1933

linocut on paper

14.5 x 20.0 cm (image)
16.5 x 22.0 cm (sheet)

artist’s proof

signed in image lower right with artist’s monogram

Estimate: 
$6,000 – $9,000
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

Progressive Art, Modern Art Centre, Sydney, 1 March – 1 April 1932, cat. 6 (another example)
Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours and Lino Cuts by Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 7 – 23 July 1938, cat. 43 (another example)
The Drawing, Print and Watercolour Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Melbourne, opened 2 December 1952, cat. 44 (another example)
Exhibition of Paintings by the late Dorrit Black, Hahndorf Academy Gallery, Adelaide, 1959, cat. 37 (another example., as ‘Trees (woodcut)’)
The Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 29 (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, then touring to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales; The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1975 – 76, cat. 58 (another example)
Dorrit Black (1891 – 1951), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 24 April – 15 May 2011, cat. 24 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

Literature

Tatlock Miller, H (ed.)., Manuscripts: A Miscellany of Art and Letters, The Hassell Press, Adelaide, no. 6, August 1933, p. 45 (another example)
Brown (ed) et. al., A Book of South Australian Women in the First Hundred Years, Rigby, Adelaide, 1936, p. 122 (another example)
Phoenix, Adelaide University Students' Representative Council, Adelaide, 1939, p. 54 (another example)
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.20, pl. 25, pp. 65 (illus., another example), 132
Ambrus, C., Australian Women Artists: First Fleet to 1945: History, Hearsay and Her say, Irrepressible Press, Canberra, 1992, p. 82 (illus., 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. DB23, pp. 158, 159 (illus., another example)
Lock, T., Dorrit Black, Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 202 (illus., another example)