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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  25 Nov 2020 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  7
• Lot Description:
  Dorrit Black
  (1891-1951)
  Wool Quilt Makers, 1940-41
  colour linocut on thin oriental laid paper, printed from five blocks in red, yellow, black, blue and dark brown
  23.5 x 31.5cm (9 1/4 x 12 3/8in).
  monogrammed in image upper left: 'DB'
  RELATED WORKS: Other impressions from this edition are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• Provenance:
  The Estate of the Artist, Adelaide; Private collection, Queensland
• Notes:
  EXHIBITED: Dorrit Black, (Retrospective), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1945, cat. 53 (another example); Contemporary Group, Farmers Blaxland Galleries, Sydney, 1946, cat. 4 (another example); Dorrit Black (Solo), Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 1949, cat. 55 (another example); Print, Drawing and Watercolour, Contemporary Art Society of Australia, 1952, cat. 15 (another example); Dorrit Black Collection, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 17 April - 29 May 1999, cat. 15A (another example); Dorrit Black 1891 - 1951, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, Adelaide, 2011, cat. 45 (another example); Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 June - 7 September 2014 (another example). REFERENCES: Esmond George, 'Womans Wide Range', The Mail, Adelaide, 27 October 1945, p. 7; Esmond George, 'Paintings displayed by Dorrit Black', The Mail, Adelaide, 14 May 1949, p. 6; Ian North, The Art of Dorrit Black, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1979, p. 133; Margaret Rolfe, Patchwork Quilts in Australia, Greenhouse Publications, 1987, p. 82 (illus. another example); Shirley Cameron Wilson, From Shadow into Light: South Australian Women Artists Since Colonisation, Delmont, South Australia, 1988, p. 97; Jeanette Hoorn, Strange Women: Essays in Art and Gender, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1994, p. 50 (illus. another example); Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Adlershot, 1995, pp. 163, cat. DB42 (illus. another example); Gordon Samuel & Nicola Perry, The Cutting Edge of Modernity: Linocuts of the Grosvenor School, Lund Humphries, London, 2002, p. 70; Roger Butler, Printed Images by Australian Artists 1885-1955, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007, p. 242 (illus. another example); Catherine Speck, Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars, Reaktion Books, London, 2014, p. 156, pl. 100 (illus. another example); Denise Mimmocchi, Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, p.179 (illus. another example); Tracey Lock-Weir, Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2014, p. 94 and 206 (illus. another example); Gordon Samuel, Cutting Edge: Modern British Printmaking, Bloomsbury, United States, 2019
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Art

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