Dorrit Black (1891 - 1951)

Argentina (The Spanish dancer), c.1928 - 29

colour linocut on paper

19.5 x 16.0 cm (image)
26.0 x 20.5 cm (sheet)

edition: 7/50
signed with initials lower left: D.B.
inscribed with title and numbered below image: Argentina

Estate of the artist
Thence by descent
Mary Leask, Salisbury, England
Thence by descent
Private collection, Perth

First Exhibition of British Lino–cuts, Redfern Gallery, London, 4 – 27 July 1929, cat. 8 (another example)
Paintings by Dorrit Black, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 10 – 20 September 1930, cat. 27 (another example, as ‘The Spanish Dancer’)
Exhibition of Linocuts, Everyman’s Lending Library, Melbourne, 5 – 16 April 1932, cat. 4 (another example, as ‘The Spanish Dancer’)
The Drawing, Print and Watercolour Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Melbourne, opened 2 December 1952, cat. 38 (another example, as ‘The Spanish Dancer’)
Exhibition of Paintings by the late Dorrit Black, Hahndorf Academy Gallery, Adelaide, 1959, cat. 35 (another example)
A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950, Deutsher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 184 (another example)
Dorrit Black Collection, Joseph Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 4 (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 24 April – 15 May 2011, cat. 13 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

‘Miss Dorrit Black’s Pictures’, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 11 September 1930, p. 7
North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.8, p. 130 (another example, as ‘The Spanish Dancer’)
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the machine age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB5, pp. 152, 153 (illus., another example)
Lock, T., Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 152, 147 (illus., another example), 200 (illus., another example)
Whiteoak, J., “Take Me to Spain”: Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance, Lyrebird Press, Melbourne, 2019 (illus. front cover, another example)

Another example from this edition is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne