Air travel 4: Over the mountains, 1947 – 49

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Melbourne
26 August 2026
81

Dorrit Black

(1891 - 1951)
Air travel 4: Over the mountains, 1947 – 49

colour linocut on paper

18.5 x 21.5 cm (image)
21.5 x 25.5 cm (sheet)

artist’s proof

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

Estimate: 
$10,000 – $15,000
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, Adelaide, 10 – 21 May 1949, cat. 47 (another example)
Dorrit Black Memorial Exhibition, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 22 April – 2 May 1952, cat. 59 (another example)
Print, Drawing and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, Adelaide, 1952, cat. 12 (another example)
Dorrit Black 1891 – 1951, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, then touring to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales; The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1975 – 76, cat. 65 (another example)
Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April – 29 May 1999, cat. 17 (another example)
Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013 (another example)
Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June – 7 September 2014 (another example)

Literature

North, I., The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, cat. L.45, pl. 49B, pp. 103 (illus., another example), 133
Coppel, S., Lino Cuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scholar Press, Leicester, United Kingdom, in association with National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. DB47, p. 165 (illus., another example)
Edwards, D., and Mimmocchi, D. (eds.), Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 222, 235 (illus., another example), 310
Lock, T., Dorrit Black, Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, pp. 166 (illus., another example) 207 (illus., another example)