Dorrit Black
(1891 - 1951)
AIR TRAVEL: PINEAPPLE PLANTATION, c.1949
Edition: edition of 50
colour linocut
18.5 x 22.0 cm
signed upper right in image with artist’s monogram
Estimate:
$10,000 - $15,000
Sold:
$20,740 (inc. BP)
lot details
Private collection, Canberra
Exhibited
Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, 10 May 1949, cat. 48 (another example)
Dorrit Black Memorial Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 60 (another example)
Drawing, Print and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 11 (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1975, 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. 66 (another example)
Literature
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, cat. L. 46, pl. 49C, p. 105 (illus., another example)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor school, Aldershot, Scolar Press Brookfield, 1995, cat. DB48