Dorrit Black (1891 - 1951)

Orchestra pit, Theatre Royal, c.1935

colour linocut on paper

23.0 x 18.0 cm (image)
30.0 x 22.0 cm (sheet)

artist’s proof
signed with artist’s monogram in image lower right

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

The Drawing, Print and Watercolour Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Melbourne, opened 2 December 1952, cat. 24 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.50, p. 133 (another example)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB31, p. 160 (illus., another example)
Lock, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, p. 203 (illus., another example)

Other examples from this edition are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
The Orchestra Pit, Theatre Royal, c.1935, watercolour, 22.0 x 17.0 cm, private collection
Sketch For Linocut ‘Orchestra Pit, Theatre Royal, c.1935, pencil on paper, 9.2 x 7.4 cm, private collection