Dorrit Black
(1891 - 1951)
THE STRING QUARTETTE, c.1935
Edition: edition 1/50
colour linocut on thin oriental wove paper
15.0 x 24.0 cm
signed, numbered, and inscribed with title below image
Estimate:
$15,000 - $20,000
Sold:
$48,800 (inc. BP)
lot details
The Estate of Edith Lawrence
Tennants, United Kingdom, 25 March 2017, lot 747
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
British Lino Cuts, Ward Gallery, London, 10 June – 8 July 1936, cat. 19 (another example)
Dorrit Black, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 7 – 23 July 1938, cat. 40 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)
Literature
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1979, p. 204 (illus., another example)
Related Works
Another example of this print is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Study for The Quartette, pencil and watercolour on paper, 15.1 x 24.6 cm, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.