Naval funeral, c.1945

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
26 August 2026
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Dorrit Black

(1891 - 1951)
Naval funeral, c.1945

colour linocut on paper

16.0 x 24.0 cm (image)
19.0 x 27.5 cm (sheet)

artist’s proof

edition of 50
signed with artist’s monogram in image upper right

Estimate: 
$25,000 – $35,000
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. 50 (another example)
Dorrit Black Memorial Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 22 April – 2 May 1952, cat. 58 (another example)
The Drawing, Print and Watercolour Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Melbourne, opened 2 December 1952, cat. 33 (another example)
Exhibition of Paintings by the late Dorrit Black, Hahndorf Academy Gallery, Adelaide, 1959, cat. 34 (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, then touring: 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. 68 (another example)
Project 39 – Women's Imprint, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 – 31 October 1982
A Century of Australian Woman Artists, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne, 4 June – 3 July 1993, cat. 107 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 75)
Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 16 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)
Modern impressions: Australian prints from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2 September 2016 – January 2017 (another example)

Literature

North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, cat. L.48, pl. 25, pp. 111 (illus., another example, dated c.1949), 133
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor school, pp. 65–68, England, 1995, cat. DB45, p. 164 (illus., another example)
Speck, C., Painting ghosts: Australian women artists in wartime, Melbourne, 2004, pp. 196, 197 (illus., another example)
Butler, R., Printed images by Australian artists 1885 – 1955, Canberra, 2007, p. 242 (illus., another example)
Lock, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 206 (illus., another example)
Grishin, S., Australian Art: A History, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2015, pp. 236 (illus., another example), 238